ArticlesCategory :: Gender IssuesBy US Politics Today 24/7/ Press Release 9/3/2010 "A recent decision by the German Constitutional Court provides that men who father children out of wedlock need not obtain the mother's consent to seek legal custody." Read the entire article: http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr-news/156565-european-court-decision-advances-fathers-rights By Associated Press 8/27/2010 "The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmy8vp2IF0hXIS66YjPRglOJg52QD9HRVQF80 By Time 9/1/2010 "...But now there's evidence that the ship may finally be turning around: according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201527400
By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "... More and more adults are connecting with one another through what has been called Web 2.0. While women are still more likely than men to connect via social networking, men are increasingly using social networking online. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/technology/a/social_net_sites.htm?nl=1 By Medline Plus 8/26/2010 "New research shows older men's sex hormone levels depend on both race and geographical location, casting further doubt on the criteria for "male menopause."" Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102663.html By New York Times 8/18/2010 "...It's a development that predates the current economic doldrums, and no one knows yet what the impact will be — on the prospects of the young men and women, on the parents on whom so many of them depend, on society, built on the expectation of an orderly progression in which kids finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?emc=eta1 By The Washington Times 8/23/2010 "...At some point, we will have to come to grips with the fact that a very large percentage of our students fail because they lack a father and mother who value, encourage, support and reinforce their efforts to learn. Common sense tells us there is no surer recipe for the child to lag behind in learning than having to contend with the strain and disruption of a broken, dysfunctional family..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/23/why-young-black-men-dont-graduate/?page=2 The Washington Times 8/24/2010 "...Times may have changed for some, who more readily accept the family variations that increasingly are called "normal" in American culture, but times have not changed for children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/24/hicks-and-the-winner-is-sperm-donor/ By Sydney Morning Herald 8/26/2010 "...In a report that might not be well received by some single mothers, the acting Ombudsman, Ron Brent, found that the Child Support Agency had at times been unduly influenced by stereotypes about fathers not meeting their obligations. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/national/fathers-stereotyped-by-child-support-agency-20100825-13s89.html By OMG! 8/25/2010 "..."If he was of legal age," Kim, 29, said when asked if she would date 16-year-old Biebs. "He definitely has this swag to him."..." Read the entire article: http://omg.yahoo.com/news/kim-kardashian-would-definitely-date-justin-bieber-if-he-was-legal/46182 By Seattle Post Intelligencer 8/23/2010 "A Federal Way woman faces multiple charges in a case involving a faked pregnancy and thousands of dollars in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/sound/425615_sound101319679.html By Toronto Sun -- Canada 8/12/2010 "Burt Reynolds has been given a reprieve from his ex-wife Loni Anderson as he continues to recover from heart surgery - she's waived the $400,000 he owes her in back child support, according to a U.S. tabloid report." Read the entire article: http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2010/08/11/14993041-wenn-story.html By New York Times 8/20/2010 "A tragic crisis of enormous magnitude is facing black boys and men in America." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 By Medline Plus 8/16/2010 "Eating more oily fish like sardines, salmon and yellowtail could help teenage boys feel less blue, suggests a new Japanese study. The same does not appear to hold for teen girls, however." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102255.html By The Grio 8/17/2010 "Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding "no," according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a "national crisis," the report found that only 47 percent of black males graduated from high school in the 2007-2008 school year." Read the entire article: http://www.thegrio.com/specials/making-the-grade/grim-graduate-rates-for-black-males-highlight-racial-gap-in-schools.php By Gordon E Finley -- Letters to the Editor/Washington Times "Although it is widely purported that women are paid less than men for equal work, the reality is otherwise ("Poll shows mixed feelings about feminism," Nation, Tuesday)." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/gender-pay-gap-reflects-choices-not-bias/ By Washington Times 8/16/2010 "Feminists may insist that life for women has gotten better since the days when raucous female activists marched in the streets for equality and questioned traditional social mores about men, marriage and career." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/poll-shows-mixed-feelings-about-feminism/ By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "Men who have a brother with prostate cancer are more likely than other men to be diagnosed with the disease, but the reason may have more to do with greater surveillance than genetics, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102386.html By The Australian National Affairs 8/18/2010 "...The proportion of boys in special classes rises as diagnosis of their condition becomes more subjective, with boys accounting for 85 per cent of students in special schools with behavioural and emotional disorders. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/special-schools-a-fast-track-to-prison/story-fn59niix-1225906552218 By The Shropshire Star 8/13/2010 "Many primary schools across Shropshire do not have one male teacher – depriving growing boys of a positive role model." Read the entire article: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/education/2010/08/13/many-shropshire-primary-schools-have-no-male-teachers/#ixzz0x1UzJqjn By Yahoo News 8/18/2010 "America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight_attendant_baby By TMZ.com 8/11/2010 "NBA veteran Earl Watson filed for divorce from his wife Jennifer Freeman -- claiming the "My Wife and Kids" actress attacked him in a late night rage ... and savagely bit him on the chest until he bled." Read the entire article: http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/11/nba-player-earl-watson-jennifer-freeman-my-wife-and-kids-indiana-pacers-bite-attack-ucla/ By Medline Plus 8/15/2010 "...Compared to abstainers, teens who only have casual sex are at greater risk for lower grades and problems in school, and are more likely to be expelled or suspended, less likely to be attached to school, and less likely to go to college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102214.html By Medline Plus 8/11/2010 "Young men who are obese may have a lower sperm count than their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102099.html By KTLA.com 8/16/2010 "The common-law wife of renowned French chef Jean Francois Poinard admits she killed him and stuffed his body in the freezer. She is now under investigation for manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-chef-freezer,0,7101247.story By Fox59 8/12/2010 "A Jeffersonville woman is accused of fatally poisoning her estranged husband with morphine and muscle relaxants in order to collect a $100,000 life insurance policy." Watch video: http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-woman-poisons-husband-081110,0,3706887.story By Fresno Bee 8/9/2010 "A 42-year-old Northern California woman has been arraigned on felony charges of unlawful sex with two teenage boys, but delayed entering a plea while her defense lawyer reviews the evidence against her. By E Online 8/12/2010 "...So the actress obviously had no problem dishing it back to him after the Fox News fixture lambasted her on his show for having the audacity to say in public that women are, more and more these days, taking the matter of family into their own hands and choosing to have children without being in a relationship. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b195093_jennifer_aniston_sticks_it_back_bill.html?cmpid=rss-000000- By The Washington Post 8/12/2010 "...Domestic violence is not the province of one gender; abusers can be male or female, heterosexual or homosexual. Although abuse by males is widely recognized, abuse by females is generally not. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081105728.html By Medline Plus 8/11/2010 "Males account for the majority of U.S. hospital emergency visits involving underage drinkers, says a federal government report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102074.html By The Vancouver Sun "He may leave his socks lying around and avoid emptying the dishwasher, but a new study shows husbands do as much work as their wives." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/women+same+amount+work/3367254/story.html#ixzz0wDQye12O By E-Online 8/10/2010 "Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Kardashian!" Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/hwood_party_girl/b194607_kim_kardashian_seduces_justin_bieber_in.html? By Kake.com 8/8/2010 "A Wichita woman asks police to arrest her after a domestic violence call to a residence." Read the entire article: http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/100224199.html?ref=199 By People.com 8/2/2010 "..."Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," Aniston, 41, said. "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long.".. Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20408849,00.html By Wall Street Journal 8/5/2010 "...A New York state appellate court on Tuesday became the first in the state to rule that a same-sex partner may be liable for child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/08/05/same-sex-partners-in-new-york-can-be-liable-for-child-support/ By Helium "...The sad part is that it's not necessarily because the person that is asked to pay doesn't want to help take care of their children. It's contentious because the needs and the abilities of that parent are not taken into consideration. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1912136-child-support-guidelines By ScienceDaily 7/27/2010 "Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hypertension at early adulthood and that teenage boys are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than girls." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100727094826.htm By ScienceDaily 7/7/2010 "A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but boys still outnumber girls by more than about 3-to-1 at extremely high levels of math ability and scientific reasoning." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706113210.htm By Telegraph.co.uk 8/2/2010 "Women found men more appealing when they were either pictured wearing red or framed in red, compared with other colours, it found." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7922951/Women-prefer-a-man-in-red.html By The Washington Times 7/21/2010 "...Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years, but the gender gap now exists in nearly every state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in some, according to the Center on Education Policy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/21/will-fart-fiction-get-boys-to-read/ By Medline Plus 8/1/2010 "Experts have long known that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101725.html By Men Media 7/30/2010 "...Police sources said she attacked him with the knife after he accused her of having a lesbian affair. Samantha fled but her sister Toni refused to call an ambulance for an hour even though Mr Darvill lay dying on the floor of her home Blackley home where she had been holding a party. ..." Read the entire article: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1312697_victims_family_furious_at_joke_justice_for_killer_sisters By Yahoo News 7/30/2010 "A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100730/ap_on_re_us/us_starved_children
Morris County faces lawsuit from officer who refused to fire gun while pregnantFriday, 30 July 2010
By NJ.com 7/13/2010 "Morris County is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a sheriff’s officer who claims she was discriminated against when she was required to fire a gun while pregnant." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/morris_county_sheriffs_office_seeks_d.html By RiverFrontTimes 7/29/2010 "A Fulton-based resource center for battered women has been ordered by the state to shut down all operations." Read the entire article: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/07/domestic_violence_center_shut_down_for_being_a_total_fraud.php By MedlinePlus 7/21/2010 "Women are most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) between ages 51 and 55, while men are more prone to the condition from ages 41 to 45, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101321.html By Telegraph.co.uk 7/27/2010 "...Mr Chhalotre had complained the impotence accusation "rendered him unmarriageable and sullied his prestige". ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7912341/Woman-fined-for-defaming-husbands-manhood.html By Geelong Advertiser 7/27/2010 "..."Your laws and penalties don't apply to me. I'm not accepting them, I'm sorry, I must go, thank you," Eilish De Avalon said, driving off with the officer's arm caught in her driver's side door. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/07/27/195111_news.html By Carolyn Hax -- Washington Post 7/29/2010 "...I'm in a terrible marriage and I don't know how to get out of it. I have two small children, which greatly complicates things. My wife has become extremely abusive, both physically and verbally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072805425.html By American Psychological Association -- Blog "Your Mind Your Body" 6-16-2010 "No, according to the Men’s Health Network, the purpose is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. What’s so different about the health of men? Unlike women, sadly many men take much better care of maintaining their vehicle than they do their physical body." Read the entire article: http://www.yourmindyourbody.org/men-and-physical-exams-why-they-avoid-them-how-to-motivate-them/ By This is Jersey 7/26/2010 "...Victim Support say that they are seeing more and more men asking for help and that it is time to encourage other husbands and boyfriends to come forward." By CBS News 7/16/2010 "...The connection is particularly strong in women, says Dr. Ian Kerner, author and sex therapist. "The brain is the most powerful sex organ," he says. Men, he adds, have a much harder time making themselves climax without any touch whatsoever, but there are documented cases in women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20010797-10391704.html By CNN.com 7/21/2010 "If masculinity could take the form of a 2-inch frosted cupcake, David Arrick would have the recipe." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/21/new.york.butch.bakery/index.html By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "...The U.S. researchers who reviewed 153 studies from the last 30 years also found that boys bully more than girls. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101164.html By Nicholas D. Kristof -- New York Times 7/21/2010 "...If school performance predicts career success, then women may do even better a few decades from now, for girls clearly excel in school as never before. The National Honor Society, for top high school students, says that 64 percent of its members are girls. The Center on Education Policy cites data showing that boys lag girls in reading in every American state. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html?ref=columnists By Hanna Rosin -- The Atlantic July/August 2010 "...And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135 By Richard Driscoll with Nancy Ann Davis -- Dr Driscoll Blog Spot "A recent 2008 Gallup poll in Great Britain finds that 33% of women "often or very often" feel resentful of men, compared to 14% of men who often feel resentful of women." Read the entire article: http://drsd2.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-so-much-harsher-toward-men.html By SILive.com 7/21/2010 "Rep. Michael McMahon has secured $90,000 for the office of District Attorney Daniel Donovan to expand its Violence Against Women program." Read the entire article: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/mcmahon_secures_90g_to_assist.html By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "I have to admit; even though I have moved into grandfatherhood, there is still a lot of boy in my heart. The Dangerous Book for Boys reached into my inner boy and made me long for the days of my youth, and to be excited about my sons and grandsons having similar experiences in their young lives." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/activities/fr/dangerous_book.htm?nl=1 By The Boston Globe 7/18/2010 "... Two years ago, Niro’s youngest son graduated from college, ending child support payments and leaving his former wife with alimony of $65 a week. “The next thing I know, I get summonsed to court for alimony adjustment,’’ he says. A probate court judge increased the alimony to $700 a week even though the couple had divorced nearly a quarter of a century ago — five times longer than they were married. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/family/articles/2010/07/18/years_and_marriages_later_former_spouses_still_owe_alimony/ By Medline Plus 7/12/2010 "A large study by U.S. and Australian researchers suggests that puberty can be associated with a substantial increase in violent and socially aggressive behavior." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100946.html By People.com 7/16/2010 "...This is a case of a woman scorned," says the source. "When Oksana first met Mel, he promised her the world. Obviously things didn't work out. She ultimately felt screwed over because he wanted out of the relationship."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20402847,00.html?xid=rss- By The Marshall Democrat-News - Missouri 7/9/2010 "A criminal summons has been issued for a Marshall woman for failing to pay child support. Billie J. Weathers, 39, is charged with two counts of nonsupport, a class D felony." Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1648459.html By Cord Jefferson - The Root 7/6/2010 "...Professor Frances Goldscheider teaches sociology at Brown, where she came up with the idea that, she says, has made her question some of her deepest, most long-standing beliefs: "While I thought I was a feminist all my life, when I started studying the family and fatherhood in general, I realized that I was really an egalitarian. I want a level playing field in the family for men and women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theroot.com/views/what-if-i-dont-want-be-daddy?page=0,1 By FoxNews.com 7/12/2010 "A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/12/mich-women-sentenced-woman-gets-years-sex-son-gave-adoption/ By People.com 7/15/2010 "..."[She] used our children as pawns," the rocker, 49, says in court papers released Thursday in her increasingly bitter split with Tammy, 35. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20402417,00.html?xid= By National Review 7/10/2010 "Myths about domestic violence not only libel the vast majority of men; they also put truly at-risk women at greater risk." Read the entire article: http://article.nationalreview.com/437888/the-world-cup-abuse-nightmare/christina-hoff-sommers By New York Times 7/5/2010 "...The championship event was created by two men, both professional jousters, who are on a mission to transform jousting from Renaissance-fair entertainment to arena sport. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11Jousting-t.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1278849697-XtpUaHIuYks9yvaNrcJYYw By Gordon E. Fiinley - Washington Times/Letters to the Editor 7/9/2010 "...As we begin to enter the intensity of the fall elections, I would urge all boys and men, along with all the women who love them, to ask every candidate on their ballot what they have done - or promise to do - for the health and well-being of males. Should no answer be forthcoming, that exactly is the number of votes those candidates should receive. ..."' Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/9/health-care-gender-gap/ By MedlinePlus 7/6/2010 "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer also boosts a man's risk for the disease, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100745.html By CDC "...Overall, 708,769 men were told they had cancer and 290,064 men died from cancer in the U.S. in 2006. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsMenTop10Cancers/ By People.com 7/8/2010 "...But while Etheridge, 49, requested joint custody of the couple's 3-year-old twins, Michaels, 35, is seeking full legal and physical custody, with visitation for Etheridge, documents filed in L.A. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20400627,00.html By The Washington Post 7/2/2010 "The ex-girlfriend of a D.C. Superior Court magistrate judge was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for stalking the judge and breaking into her Northwest Washington home." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/01/AR2010070106377.html By The Australian 7/1/2010 "BOTCHED circumcisions in South Africa killed 40 boys and put over 100 in the hospital this month, a health official said." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/forty-boys-killed-in-botched-circumcisions-in-south-africa/story-fn3dxity-1225886438305 By The Daytona Beach News Journal 7/1/2010 "The family of the late Tom Moore will send him on a final journey Sunday in one of his favorite holiday traditions, a colorful shower of fireworks over Lake Disston." Read the entire article: http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/west-volusia/2010/07/01/widow-honors-spouse-with-holiday-fireworks-sendoff.html By WebMD 7/11/2010 "A rocky romantic relationship can cause significant stress , but contrary to conventional wisdom, its impact may be harder on young men than on young women, new research indicates." Read the entire article: https://www.webmdhealth.com/ehealth/common/content/webmdtopic.aspx?webmdlink=/content/WebMDArticles/WebMD/WebMD_News_091e9c5e805bccdb.html By Mail Online - UK 7/7/2010 "...The taxi driver had gone to watch his son, a year seven pupil, compete in sprints and egg-and-spoon races. But teachers refused to let him spectate because they did not believe he had undergone checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292909/School-sports-day-ban-father-criminal-records-check.html
By Christina Hoff Sommers -- The American 7/1/2010 "Boys are falling behind girls in our nation’s schools. Fewer boys graduate from high school, and boys are less likely to attend college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068." Read the entire article: http://www.american.com/archive/2010/june-2010/are-there-more-girl-geniuses By Worcester Telegram - Massachusetts 7/1/2010 "...A published 2004 study by Arizona State University professors Sanford Braver and David Stockburger concluded that Massachusetts’ guidelines for determining how much child support an obligor will pay were among the highest in the United States. Since then, the state’s guidelines have actually been raised — in January 2009, in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100701/NEWS/7010723/1020 By BBC 6/18/2010 "...A mother, Jo, [not her real name] said her son's secondary school refused to interact with her despite a court order giving her joint residency of her son, even though he lives most of the year with his father. She said: "I need to know, from the school, how he's doing. "It makes it difficult for me to deal with my own child."..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/10347876.stm
By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum June 2010 "The month of June when we observe Father's Day is a good time to review some of the injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2010/june10/psrjune10.html By Seymour Herald - Tennessee 6/30/2010 "...“When it comes to deciding who gets the kids, it’s natural for judges to want to place them with the parent who is nurturing and sensitive,” said Michael Taylor, motivational speaker, life coach, and author of A New Conversation With Men (www.coachmichaeltaylor.com). ..." Read the entire article: http://seymourherald.com/news/2010/jun/30/is-fatherhood-dying/ By ninemsn 6/21/2010 "...The latex condom is inserted by the woman like a tampon, and features jagged rows of teeth-like hooks that latch onto an attacker's penis upon penetration. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/1073546/anti-rape-female-condom-unveiled-for-world-cup By The New York Times - Europe 6/30/2010 "France is embarking on a grand experiment — how to diversify the overwhelmingly white “grandes écoles,” the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life — and Rizane el-Yazidi is one of the pioneers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/europe/01ecoles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By CNN.com 6/30/2010 "...We're finally realizing not only that sexual assault exists and how prevalent it is, but there is such a thing as a female perpetrator," Robin Sax, a former prosecutor and author of "Predators and Molesters," told "Prime News."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/30/michigan.teacher.sex/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn Read the entire article By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 6/23/2010 "The Boston College Center for Work and Family has released a new study looking at today's new fathers and how they differ from past generations of new dads." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/06/23/new-study-from-boston-college-on-new-dads.htm?nl=1 By Fayeobserver.com 6/24/2010 "...This current mistreatment of fathers isn't limited to sitcoms - commercials may be even worse. Watch a few commercials, and I guarantee that you will see at least one in which Dad or Grandpa can't figure out how to operate the computer/cell phone/remote control and has to ask 5-year-old Timmy for help. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2010/06/24/1008274?sac=Opin By NYC.gov – New York/Press Release 6/17/2010 "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the launch of a citywide fatherhood initiative to strengthen New York City families by helping fathers be active in their children’s lives." Read the entire article: http://nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name= By Vox Day -- WorldNetDaily 6/28/2010 "There is a relentless war being waged against American men that literally spans the entire extent of their lives." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=171781 By Albany Times Union – New York 6/25/2010 "New Yorkers need divorce reform, but no-fault divorce is not enough. It does nothing for spouses left in difficult or dire financial circumstances by the capricious laws now governing spousal support." By Newsweek.com "...“The numbers go down for boys and girls, but they go down much more dramatically for boys,” says Amelia Arria, director of the center on young adult health and development at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. “It represents a 25 percent decrease for boys, but only a 1 percent decrease for girls. Girls are staying kind of level, and boys are dropping.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/study-shows-teen-girls-are-drinking-more-for-different-reasons-than-boys.html By KTLA.com 6/28/2010 "...Stephanie Ragusa plead guilty to repeated sexual encounters with a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-math-teacher-sex,0,7670220.story By People.com 6/25/2010 "Really putting a stamp on their split, Mel Gibson filed for a restraining order against Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his 7- month-old daughter, Lucia, PEOPLE has learned." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397104,00.html By Matt C. Abbott -- RenewAmerica "...Above all, the legal system should work to preserve — not sunder — the marital bond. With the acceptance of 'no-fault' divorce, our legal system has done just the opposite. Baskerville demonstrates convincingly that our courts are biased not only against fathers and husbands, but also against intact marriages...." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100617
By FoxNews.com 6/23/2010 "Four California high school students are fighting for their right to show their patriotism any day of the year, after they were forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/students-sue-removal-american-flag-t-shirts/ By FoxNews.com 6/22/2010 "...Dostal’s 14-year-old son was one of a handful of eighth graders in the class. The students, she said, were given instruction on how to perform female exams and the instructor used a 3-D, anatomically correct male sex organ to explain how to use a condom. But Dostal said she was most upset over the instructor simulating sexual acts using stuffed animals designed to resemble STD’s. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/22/graphic-sex-ed-class/ By Times of India - India 6/20/2010 "...Today’s generation boasts of hands-on dads, the types who are just as involved in the care and upkeep of the child as the mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/people/Fatherhood-redefined/articleshow/6070981.cms By USA Today 6/22/2010 "...That's when it seems this generation of young people is giving new meaning to the words "long-term relationship." Many are "a couple" for years, and some approach a decade of dating. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-22-10yearcourtship22_CV_N.htm By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A 44-year old woman has been arraigned in the murder of an aspiring fashion model and actress whose body was found inside her Santa Monica apartment more than two years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-aspiring-model-murdered,0,7499161.story By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A Petaluma woman was being questioned Monday after her toddler was found wandering barefoot through the streets." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lost-toddler-petaluma,0,2268886.story By KTLA.com 6/19/2010 "Newly released grand jury transcripts show Melissa Huckaby drugged 8-year old Sandra Cantu and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before strangling her with an alcohol soaked noose." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-huckaby-documents,0,6910341.story By Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein -- Cleveland.com 6/19/2010 "...While genuine child support evaders certainly exist, many noncustodial parents fall behind in their support because the current system is mulishly impervious to the economic realities working people face, such as layoffs, wage cuts, unemployment and work-related injuries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/fathers_day_deadbeat_dad_raids.html By E-Online 6/22/2010 "...The late actor's lawyer Randy Kester confirms to E! News that Coleman had attempted to file a restraining order against former wife Shannon Price just a few months before his passing." By Huffington Post 6/21/2010 "Worst mom? Or worstest mom? Sorry that makes no sense. I'm having a hard time getting my thoughts together after watching this video of the most inappropriate mom ever. You may want to put a pillow on the floor so your jaw doesn't break when it drops to the ground. .." To Watch Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/the-most-inappropriate-mo_n_617667.html By People.com 6/21/2010 "Kyron Horman's stepmother, who is the subject of law enforcement attention in the missing 7-year-old boy's case, has taken two polygraph tests." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20395895,00.html By Telegraph.co.uk 6/7/2010 "...Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the CCCS, said: "Men have been hard hit by the recession and are emerging as the new underclass. Debt alone is no longer the problem. It is loss of income and other rising costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/7808411/Debt-Men-are-emerging-as-the-new-underclass.html By New York Post 6/19/2010 "A woman who wrote President Barack Obama, asking for help resolving her husband’s immigration problem got a response she didn’t expect: Federal agents turned up at her New York City home and took her husband to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyc_woman_request_to_obama_leads_KR6DGawVZPZf8GO0ArOlPI By Yahoo News 6/18/2010 "...But there is evidence that abortion often involves a third victim, one who is typically dismissed when he is acknowledged at all: the child’s father. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100618/cm_csm/309201_1 By -- Townhall.com 6/19/2010 "A good Father's Day gift would be to reform the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), make it gender-neutral, and assure men that family courts will accord them constitutional rights equivalent to those enjoyed by murderers and robbers." Read the entire article: http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/06/19/a_good_fathers_day_gift?page=full&comments=true By Charleston Post Courier – South Carolina 6/20/2010 "...The 20-year-old program, which has received acclaim from national media sources, is basically a men's-only, hands-on workshop featuring dads and dads-to-be -- as well as infants who might be giggling, crying or pooping -- and acknowledges that the trainees are fathers of all kinds: married, unmarried, biological or not. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/20/musc-program-offers-advice-to-future-fathers/ By ScienceDaily.com 6/10/2010 "The differences in mothers' and fathers' interactions with their children, particularly in play situations, may influence toddlers' associations of specific behaviors with male and female genders." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610112022.htm By Bruce Feiler -- Washington Post 6/20/2010 "...Yes, daddy-bashing is suddenly cool. The cover story of the latest Atlantic proclaims "The End of Men: How Women Are Taking Control -- of Everything," while inside the magazine Pamela Paul poses the emasculating question, "Are Fathers Necessary?"..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/18/AR2010061802698.html By MiamiHerald.com - Florida 6/15/2010 "...Just in time for Father's Day, a new report shows dads, much like Rega, are dramatically feeling the pull between work and family. Indeed, men reported their levels of work-life conflict have risen significantly over the past three decades, while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed much. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/15/1682639/balancing-act-the-new-dad-is-more.html
By Armstrong Williams - Human Events 6/16/2010 "...On the surface, there are some things that only a father can provide his children. Although a mother is vital to a child's development, there are some activities that a dad just makes perfect. Shooting baskets or going ice skating becomes more than a bonding experience between father and child, it becomes a moment when boys learn how to carry themselves as men, how to strive for a goal, work hard and strengthen their male personality. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37522&page=1 By People.com 6/18/2010 "As the search for Kyron Horman quietly ended this week, investigators are now looking at the 7-year-old's stepmom, who is believed to be the last person seen with the boy, according to a report." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20395256,00.html By BBC News – United Kingdom 6/17/2010 "Every night when 98-year-old Lily Barron goes to bed, she looks at the large framed photographs that line her bedroom wall and says a prayer for her father, "the most important man in my life. I loved every inch of him." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8744135.stm By Huffington Post (blog) - Ohio 6/16/2010 "...But while the changing face of fatherhood has its seeds in the shifting and uncertain economic fate of men, it is equally born of a new, growing spirit of determination among young men to fully embrace their roles as fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-harrington/the-changing-face-of-fath_b_614373.html By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 6/16/2010 "...I am sharing this painful, personal story so that middle-class Americans might better understand why so many poor, young, African-American men drop out of high school, father children out of wedlock and then wind up in prison. The answer: Many of them were reared, like my first son, by a single mother on public assistance and missed the essential, nurturing presence of a full-time father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-black-fathers-20100616,0,5283163.story By New York Times 6/10/2010 "...In a seven-page legal analysis, David J. Barron, the acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that federal prosecutors may use the law in cases of interstate stalking and domestic violence regardless of whether the victim or the defendant is a man or a woman. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/politics/11gender.html?scp=1&sq=vawa&st=cse By Globe and Mail – United Kingdom 6/10/2010 "...Armin Brott, one of the forefathers of fatherhood thinking, who has authored eight books on the subject, says he’s noticed a distinction between male and female fantasies about parenthood. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/daddy-dreaming-what-fatherhood-means-to-men/article1599860/ By Washington Times 6/15/2010 "It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in college." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/big-man-shortage-on-campus/ By Fox News 6/16/2010 "...These horrifying scenes were all in a video shown yesterday to the Queens jury that will decide the fate of a woman who allegedly set her ex-boy friend on fire in a jealous rage and then accidentally torched herself. ..." Read the article and watch the video: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/shocking-video-shown-trial-ny-woman-allegedly-set-ex-boyfriend-jealous-rage/ By Gordon E Finley PhD -- Mens News Daily 6/16/2010 "...All of this has changed, of course, as society and the economy have changed. Today Father’s Day and fatherhood itself are under fire on multiple fronts and with multiple losses, not only for children and fathers, but also for society. Consider three: male unemployment, divorce, and non-marital childbearing. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/06/16/on-fatherhood/ By Indiana University 6/15/2010 "Just in time for Father's Day this Sunday (June 20), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics, based on the most current data." Read the entire article: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14716.html By New York Times 6/15/2010 "The State Senate on Tuesday, clearing aside decades of opposition, put New York on a course to adopt no-fault divorce — the last state to do so. It approved legislation that would permit couples to separate by mutual consent, a major shift with sweeping implications for families and lawyers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/nyregion/16divorce.html?src=me By Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom 6/16/2010 "...The broad thrust of the series is that fathers now and then may face different circumstances, but their primary impulse remains the same. “Over the past century there have been all sorts of struggles for dads, but essentially what dads want to do is do the best for their children,” says Nick Maddocks, the producer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7830633/BBC-Fatherhood-season-why-its-time-to-stop-bashing-dads.html By People.com 6/16/2010 "University professor Amy Bishop – charged after allegedly opening fire on six of her colleagues and killing three, last February – is facing new charges that she also shot and killed her brother 24 years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20394571,00.html By Washington Post 6/13/2010 ""RAPE IS VIOLENT, destructive, and a crime -- no less so when the victim is incarcerated."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061203602.html By Fort Smith Times Record – Arkansas 6/13/2010 "...From a personal financial perspective, divorce ranks at or near the top of life events that can cause mass financial destruction. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.swtimes.com/business/article_3ee24de0-770d-11df-84bb-001cc4c03286.html By People.com 6/14/2010 "...Sandra's stunned family had waited more than a year to hear why the 29-year-old mom murdered her daughter’s playmate and dumped her body in an irrigation pond. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20393886,00.html By USA Today 6/10/2010 "...Only 59 percent of Division I programs offer men's soccer, according to the College Sports Council's study. That's a far cry from the 93 percent that offer women's soccer <emdash /> and the CSC says the disparity is because of Title IX and the way schools try to comply with it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2010-06-10-641226200_x.htm By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe 6/9/2010 "...Valenti believes that any talk of a conservative version of feminism is a cynical right-wing ploy to fool women into supporting reactionary antiwoman policies. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/06/09/right_to_be_feminist/?s_campaign=8315 By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Glenn Sacks blog 6/13/2010 "Fathers Day is fast approaching, so it must be time for anti-dad screeds to start appearing. And sure enough, as punctually as an english rural train, here they come." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4850 By KTLA.com 6/8/2010 "...Shannon Price hired a production company to take a series of photos of her ex-husband in his hospital bed hooked up to a ventilation machine, TMZ reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gary-coleman-hospitalized,0,3156610.story By The Sun 6/9/2010 "A US bank worker who claimed she was fired for being "too sexy" had cosmetic surgery to make her look like a Playboy centrefold." By New York Times 6/9/2010 "...From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By Huffington Post (blog) 6/9/2010 "...This redefinition of fatherhood is happening in millions of families around the country, where fathers are spending far more hours with their children every week than their dads spent with them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maddy-dychtwald/gender-roles-are-men-stil_b_605974.html By The New York Times 6/7/2010 "...Men and women might, on average, have equal mathematical ability, but there could still be disproportionately more men with very low or very high scores. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/08tier.html?th&emc=th By Medline Plus 6/6/2010 "New research points toward novel ways to treat ovarian and prostate cancer, while producing a disappointment for those with a certain form of colon cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99659.html By Reading Eagle - Pennsylvania 6/6/2010 "My ex-husband and I could not revise our child-support arrangement ourselves, so we took it to court. At the hearing, my lawyer, a specialist in family law, was better prepared than his, a generalist who made numerous mistakes in preparation and presentation." Read the entire article: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=225245 By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 6/2/2010 "...For males, 29 percent of those aged 15–17 said they had ever had sex compared to 65 percent for those aged 18 and 19. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100602.htm By People.com 6/6/2010 "...Sandra Bullock returned to the spotlight Saturday night, making a memorable surprise appearance at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20364464_20391618,00.html By Hollywood.com 6/1/2010 "...He tells People.com, "It follows me through juggling everything and wanting to learn. There's so much out there for women but not so much for men, and I want to be a very hands-on dad. I think having a humorous but informative way to tell that story would be great for a show."..." Read the entire article: http://www.hollywood.com/news/Lopez_planning_reality_show_about_fatherhood/6876408 By Ross Douthat -- New York Times Opinion 5/30/2010 "...Their inner lives are the subject of a fascinating study from the Institute for American Values, based on a survey of younger adults, ages 18 to 45, who were conceived through sperm donation. The authors — Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval Glenn and Karen Clark — depict a population that’s at once grateful to the fertility industry and uneasy about the way they were conceived, supportive of assisted fertility but haunted by the feeling of being a bought-and-paid-for child. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/opinion/31douthat.html
By KTLA.com 5/31/2010 "A woman who lied about being pregnant and was desperate for a baby has been arrested for stabbing another woman and attempting to steal her week-old daughter, police say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-attempt-murder-baby,0,2328591.story By Barbara Kay -- National Post 6/2/2010 "...Put another way, London’s 2007 police stats show that DV-related violence was 100% male on female and 0% female on male, when in fact, if the Lucio-Johnson case had been entered in the appropriate category, the ratio would be 50:50. “A bad statistic is harder to kill than a vampire,” according to a recent book on data manipulation, and no truer words were ever spoken when it comes to the DV industry. ..." Read the entire article: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/02/myths-of-domestic-violence/ By Oregon Live 6/1/2010 "...Yet just this month, the U.S. transportation secretary, under the auspices of the White House Council for Women (there is no White House Council for Men or any similar agency in the federal government while there are eight such departments for women) announced a new program to help women "to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math -- while pursuing careers in transportation."..." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/men_should_be_more_than_a_nati.html By DadsDivorce.com 5/28/2010 "Divorce attorneys often hear frustrated dads upset that they have to keep paying more and more child support while the ex-wife barely works and appears to be living off the child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/my-ex-is-living-off-child-support.html? By Medline Plus 6/1/2010 "For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99432.html By ScienceDaily.com 6/1/2010 "...Boys were three times more likely to be on ADHD medication than girls, with medication use highest in boys aged between 10 and 15. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100601072634.htm By Los Angeles Times 5/30/2010 "Dad Camp" opens with a dash of bad faith. On the new VH1 series, six expecting couples participate in a month-long therapy program in which the men are psychologically and emotionally retrained in hopes of becoming better fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-monitor-20100530,0,1507464.story By Shreveport Times - Louisiana 5/21/2010 "A Shreveport woman faces charges for filing a false tax return in her ex-husband’s name and collecting the funds in child support back pay." Read the entire article: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100521/NEWS03/100521014/-No-heading- By Parenting Magazine "...This new species of father can be found reasserting his place in America's homes and play groups, territory that has traditionally been dominated by moms. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.parenting.com/article/Mom/Relationships/Meet-The-Modern-Dad By The Pew Trusts.org 5/18/2010 "Family structure has an impact on a child’s economic mobility prospects, according to the Pew Economic Policy Group’s report "Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children." Read the entire article: http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=58966 Read the entire article: http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=58966 By FoxNews.com 5/22/2010 "A Nevada woman is accused of stealing a bottle of wine from a store while she was topless and intoxicated." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/22/nevada-woman-accused-stealing-bottle-wine-store-topless-intoxicated/ By FoxNews 5/23/2010 "Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson said she was "very sorry" for her lapse of judgment after she was recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000)." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/23/duchess-york-sarah-ferguson-devastated-tabloid-newspaper-records-bribe-sting/ By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – New York 5/23/2010 "While some couples cannot afford to divorce in the still-struggling economy, some wealthy spouses in New York might actually prefer to get divorced now." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/a-tale-of-two-outcomes-dollars-and-divorce-in-new-york-152008.php By William McCloskey -- New York Times (blog) "...But in the early days I felt like a freak — shuffling to the back of the room on parents’ night at his school, shying away from the gaggle of young mothers when I took my boy to the playground, feeling myself an object of curiosity and pity for the moms who were fully engaged and seemingly very skilled and collaborative in their role. ..." Read the entire article: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/single-dads-are-different/ By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "...Prosecutors say Kainat Syeda, 23, of Buena Park stole the cash when she worked in the police department's front lobby traffic windw from January 2006 and April 2009. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anaheim-cadet,0,5602841.story By CBS News 5/20/2010 "...The most alarming finding was that 77 percent reported being "somewhat to extremely happy" with their sex life, but 63 percent of them would rather sleep, watch a movie or read than have sex. Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/earlyshow/living/relationships/main6502408.shtml By Gordon E. Finley -- Washinton Times 5/18/2010 "...Today it is clear that "gender gaps" predominantly favor females and disfavor males. Specific examples would include strikingly higher rates of male unemployment, strikingly lower rates of male educational attainment, blatant gender bias in family and divorce law and, even when women and men initiate domestic violence at equal rates, the government's providing of services to women but not to men (as seen in the Violence Against Women Act). ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/18/the-pitfalls-of-pitting-ethnicities-genders/ By Yahoo Finance 5/19/2010 "...Much has been written about the challenges awaiting at-home mothers who decide to return to work. Few of them, though, have a tougher time of it than the stay-at-home dad. ..." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109593/daunting-task-for-mr-mom-get-a-job?mod=career-worklife_balance By Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration 5/7/2010 " A new study reveals that adolescents aged 12 to 17 living with mothers who are current smokers or who have had a major depressive episode in the past year are far more likely to smoke than adolescents not living under these circumstances." Read the entire article: http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/100506smoking0407.aspx By FoxNews.com 5/13/2010 "...However, the trend is reversed when an older man opts for a younger woman. The more youthful his wife, the longer the husband is expected to live. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592762,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/longevity By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "A Missouri mom will spend the next 58 years in jail after pleading guilty to videotaping her 16-year-old daughter having sex with the mom's 35-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-tapes-teen-sex,0,7240268.story By Appleton Post Crescent - Wisconsin 5/19/2010 "Slackers are not only the fathers in divorce cases. When the courts have awarded the father placement of the kids of a relationship, they receive little help from the local child support system." Read the entire article: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20100519/APC0601/5190338/Letters-State-can-hold-delinquent-moms-accountable-too By Paul Elam -- Mens News Daily 5/18/2010 "...It’s time for men to be allowed to legally abort fatherhood during the same period of time a woman is allowed to do the same by visiting her local clinic. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/05/18/time-to-abort-fatherhood-at-will/ By Shine from Yahoo 5/18/2010 "...Men who eat a lot of tomatoes, tomato sauce, or pizza smothered with the stuff may be giving themselves a hedge against prostate cancer. ..." Read the entire article: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/super-foods-for-men-and-women-1409161/ By CNN.com 5/18/2010 "... Having spent six years in the Army, he had always prided himself on mental toughness. But with a newborn, he found himself daydreaming about running away and contemplating suicide. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/18/postpartum.dads/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Washington Examiner 5/18/2010 "A Virginia woman was taken into custody after police say she tried to pay off her boyfriend's child support using money stolen from a Maryland bank." By Elle 5/17/2010 "...Or as Bruell more starkly puts it, “I resumed sexual relations with her on the condition that were birth control to fail, she’d abort without waffling.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Society-Career-Power/The-Parent-Trap-Paternal-Rights-and-Abortion By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "Boys' names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-naming-your-baby-boy,0,3848768.story By Ifeminist.com 5/16/2010 "Let's say your son turns 18. He gets a job at the local carnival, running the ride where the kids lie face down and spin around till they shriek with delight (or puke). Before each ride he has to buckle the kids in so they don't fly out. But then -- tragedy strikes." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.735 By Ifeminist.com 5/9/2010 "I am writing to share with you the publication of my new book, Social Work Practice with Men at Risk (Colombia University Press). A book written for social workers, the insights about men, masculinities, well-being and health are relevant to all men. The book advocates for a strengths-based approach to the needs and problem of men." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.732 By MyFox Washington DC 5/12/2010 "Frederick County Virginia Police have arrested a woman they say robbed a bank and tried to use the money to make her boyfriend’s child support payment." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/woman-robs-bank-to-pay-boyfriends-child-support-051210 By ScienceDaily.com 4/21/2010 "Parents pursuing adoption within the United States have strong preferences regarding the types of babies they will apply for, tending to choose non-African-American girls, and favoring babies who are close to being born as opposed to those who have already been born or who are early in gestation. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100420142039.htm By ScienceDaily 5/13/2010 "...The study sheds new light on antisocial behaviour in girls compared with boys and suggests that rather than violence or antisocial behaviour simply reflecting bad choices, the brains of people with antisocial behaviour may work differently from those who behave normally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510150223.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/6/2010 "When it comes to talking to parents about most dating issues, teen girls tend to disclose more than boys, and both sexes generally prefer to talk to their mothers." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100506121757.htm By Ned Holstein, M.D -- Opinion Telegram 4/29/2010 "...Jason is a formerly happy fifth grader who is now morose and whose school performance has plummeted. He has a secret he won’t tell his teacher and can’t tell his single mother: He badly misses his every-other-weekend dad and his paternal grandparents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100429/NEWS/4290680/1054/OPINION By Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers and Families -- GlennSacks.com blog 4/26/2010 "...Fathers & Families' legislative representative Michael Robinson has been working with the staffers of various state senators to get the bill amended to include custodial fathers as well as custodial mothers. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4762 By New York Times 5/9/2010 "...In 2007, according to the most recent statistics available, there were more than 81,000 separations and 50,000 divorces among Italy’s population of 59 million. Thirty years ago, divorces did not break the 12,000 mark. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/europe/10milan.html By New York Times 5/10/2010 "Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation?" Read the entire article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/tracking-the-science-of-commitment/?src=me&ref=general By Allthestories.com 5/7/2010 "...To put it in a different way, the male’s role in the family is still limited by all those social beliefs and norms that characterise all modern societies. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.allthestories.com/fatherhood-still-quite-traditional/ By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Being a committed dad and trying to be a great employee sometimes run in conflict in a father's life. Probably the most common issue I hear from committed dads is the difficulty in balancing the work and home components of their life." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/fatherhoodstories/a/familyfriendly.htm?nl=1 By American Psychiatric Association "Stigma associated with mental illnesses continues, though more than a third of Americans surveyed on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) said that, in their view, stigma has declined, and openness about personal experiences by friends, family and public figures was influential. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.healthyminds.org/Home-Page-Feature/May-is-Mental-Health-Month.aspx By Medline Plus 5/7/2010 "Men who are six feet tall or taller may have a higher risk of blood clots in their veins than do their shorter counterparts, while height does not seem to have an impact on women's risk, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98554.html By Chicago Sun-Times 5/10/2010 "They've called it the "Mancession" -- a recession that has affected men disproportionately because of its brutal impact on male-dominated sectors like construction and manufacturing." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/business/2254120,CST-NWS-mancession10.article By FoxNews.com 5/10/2010 "A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty Monday to murder." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/10/teacher-pleads-guilty-murdering-california-girl/ By FoxNews.com 5/7/2010 "...As of late Thursday, Jones said the five boys' parents have no plans to sue the school or Morgan Hill Unified School District, which has characterized the incident as "extremely unfortunate" and is conducting an ongoing investigation. Several attorneys have contacted the families offering to represent them pro bono, Jones said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/07/tensions-high-california-high-school-following-flag-flap/ By Rome News Tribune - Georgia 5/3/2010 "Children from homes without fathers make up 63 percent of youth suicides. More than 70 percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes and daughters with absentee fathers are 164 percent more like to give birth out of wedlock."
By The New York Times 5/4/2010 "...But the court limited its rulings, ultimately leaving it up to the State Legislature to decide whether to amend state law to grant nonbiological parents full custody rights. ..." Read the entire article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/court-expands-rights-of-gay-parents/ By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 5/4/2010 "Boys and girls will be separated for sex education classes as part of a drive to cut the number of unmarried young mothers in an area notorious for teenage pregnancies. ..." By Medline Plus 5/5/2010 "Older adults whose spouse has Alzheimer's or another form dementia face an increased risk of dementia themselves, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98426.html By Herald Sun - Australia 5/7/2010 "MOTHERS who do not have custody of their children and avoid paying child support to custodian fathers will be hounded and spied on at the same rate as men." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/non-paying-mums-to-be-chased-for-child-support-like-deadbeat-dads/story-e6frf7l6-1225863412585 By Wayne Parker -- About.com: Fatherhood 4/21/2010 "According to The Guardian, the number of fathers staying at home to raise children has increased in Great Britain by ten times in the last ten years. Certainly, the growing trend of stay-at-home dads is a positive for father-child relationships." Read the entire article http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/04/21/lots-more-british-dads-staying-home.htm?nl=1 By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe 4/14/2010 "Now, Duke is back in the news with a campus policy that ostensibly seeks to prevent sexual assault — but, in fact, infantilizes women, redefines much consensual sex as potentially criminal, and does a grave disservice to both sexes." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/14/dukes_sexist_sexual_misconduct_policy/ By Ifeminist.com 4/19/2010 "Re: domestic violence, in an effort to document the disparity between services for male victims and female victims, I have created a Google Map. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.726 By ScienceDaily.com 4/15/2010 "African-American men with chronic pain related to an accident, injury, illness, surgery or other causes were more likely to experience depression, affective distress and disability than white men with chronic pain, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Health System." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415143902.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/28/2010 "New research uncovers some surprising information about how sex hormones control masculinization of the brain during development and drive gender related behaviors in adult males." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100428142246.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/17/2010 "Despite national guidelines aimed at improving sexual health services for teenagers, most sexually active boys -- even those who report high-risk sexual behaviors -- still get too little counseling about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during their visits to the doctor, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414111035.htm By FoxNews 4/30/2010 "AIDS, smoking and obesity are reversing progress made in helping people live longer around the world, with mortality rates worsening over the past 20 years in 37 countries, researchers reported on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591806,00.html Fatherhood Initiative participants tackle tough issues in discussion sessionThursday, 29 April 2010
By Brewers - USA 4/26/2010 "...Men also shared difficulties they experience in trying to "be a man," usually receiving plenty of advice from others present. ... Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1629613.html By The Guardian 4/7/2010 "...The main reason families gave for men looking after the children was that the woman was the higher earner. The woman is the main breadwinner in 16% of families with dependent children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/07/rise-stay-at-home-fathers-study By Contra Costa Times 4/28/2010 "...American dads have come a long way since the 1950s and '60s. In 1950, only 12 percent of U.S. mothers of children under age 6 worked outside the home. In 2005, about 63 percent of U.S. mothers of young children did (U.S. Department of Labor, 2007). ..." Read the entire article: http://www.contracostatimes.com/teens/ci_14961231 By theTrumpet.com – United Kingdom 4/28/2010 "... There, 90 percent of the teachers are women; many schools are staffed completely by women. Governments acknowledge that boys lag in reading and writing—in New Zealand, for example, two times more 10-to-12-year-old boys than girls require remedial reading help—but efforts to narrow the gap haven’t worked. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7161.5675.0.0 By The Economist 4/8/2010 "...Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15867956 By New York Times 2/5/2010 "...North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html By MercatorNet - USA 4/19/2010 "It’s scientific: kids need not just two parents but a mother and father." Read the entire article: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_indispensable_dad/ By The Australian - Australia 4/20/2010 "MORE fathers are taking primary care of their children after divorce and separation, with new figures revealing a steady increase in the number of mothers paying child support to fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/rise-in-mothers-paying-child-support/story-e6frg6nf-1225855704303 By Daily Breeze 4/19/2010 "A Los Angeles woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly driving onto a Hawthorne sidewalk and hitting another woman, police said Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_14916165?source=rss_viewed
By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 4/20/2010 "One in four families believe fathers are missing out on day-to-day involvement with their children because of their work and outdated attitudes to parental leave, say researchers." By KSPR - Missouri 4/14/2010 "A new paternity statute gives a DNA test precendence over a birth certificate" Read the entire article: http://www.kspr.com/news/local/90888044.html By Medline Plus 4/15/2010 "Parents may want their girls to grow up to be astronauts and their boys to one day do their fair share of child care and housework duties, but a new study suggests certain stereotypical gender preferences take root even before most kids can crawl." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97658.html By The Adventist Review 4/16/2010 "A visit to your local college or university campus is likely to reveal that a revolution has taken place. On many campuses, young women now outnumber young men, and a gender gap of momentous importance is staring us in the face." Read the entire article: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=3273 By New York Times 4/12/2010 "...“I am concerned that male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States and that masculinity is becoming politically incorrect,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.”..." Read the entire article: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/feminism-vs-male-studies/ By Robert Frankling, Esq. -- (blog) GlennSacks.com 4/13/2010 "...And as usual at publications with a particularly anti-male bias, that's what passes for "journalism." They simply quote another article that makes no secret of its anti-Male Studies bias, don't lift a finger to find out what Male Studies proponents have to say about the discipline and make no effort to write a balanced article on the subject. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4730 By Glenn Sacks MA, Executive Director -- Fathers and Families 4/12/2010 "...Washington Post syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, whose column is published in over 300 newspapers weekly, was recently awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=6740 By ScienceDaily.com 4/3/2010 "A University of Iowa study has found that one-third of sexual relationships in the Chicago area lack exclusivity. One in 10 men and women reported that both they and their partner had slept with other people." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401164627.htm By The Times of India 4/12/2010 "In the wake of the raging debate on whether the Domestic Violence Act, enacted for the welfare of women, can be used against them or not, with different high courts expressing "conflicting views", a trial court has set the record straight by holding that female members of a family can be charged under the Domestic Violence Act in case of harassment of a woman." Read the entire article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/india/Women-can-be-charged-under-Domestic-Violence-Act-Court/articleshow/5783727.cms By KTLA.com "Boys' names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-naming-your-baby-boy,0,3848768.story By MSNBC.com 4/14/2010 "While uncircumcised men don't seem to be at higher risk of acquiring human papillomavirus (HPV), it takes them longer to clear the virus from their bodies, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36513754/ns/health/ By Today MSNBC 4/14/2010 "...Jon Gosselin, 33, filed for sole custody of their children last week, saying that Kate “abuses” her right to schedule visits for him with the kids and that she does not spend enough quality time with them. ..." "The Maine Human Rights Commissions taking heat over a proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms, saying forcing a student into a particular room or group because of their biological gender amounts to discrimination." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/maine-commission-moves-ban-gender-specific-school-bathrooms-teams/ By CNN.com 4/12/2010 "...Former middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa was teary-eyed Monday as she pleaded guilty to having sex with two underage students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/florida.teacher.student.sex/index.html By Pop Eater 4/12/2010 "...This begs the question, why is Jon the one paying Kate $20,000 a month in support payments? Dare we say it, should Kate be the one paying Jon? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.popeater.com/2010/04/12/jon-gosselin-kate-gosselin-custody/ By Yahoo News 4/6/2010 "...In Japan, kodokushi, a phenomenon first described in the 1980s, has become hauntingly common. In 2008 in Tokyo, more than 2,200 people over 65 died lonely deaths, according to statistics from the city's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. The deaths most often involve men in their 50s and the nation's rapidly increasingly elderly population. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100406/wl_time/08599197695200 By ABC News 4/8/2010 "...But as symptoms got worse, he finally called the local health clinic and was turned away -- not for financial reasons, but because he was a man. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/north-carolina-man-denied-free-screening-suspected-male/story?id=10313188 By Denver Post 4/7/2010 "The City Council fired longtime Municipal Judge James Kimmel on Tuesday night after he issued an arrest warrant for a teenager who had an overdue $30 DVD from a local library." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14834546 By KING5.com 4/8/2010 "...William L. Field - nice guy. William J. Field - a guy who doesn't pay his kids' child support. The state of Arizona, didn't know the difference and wiped out William L. Field's bank account. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.king5.com/news/consumer/Wrong-mans-bank-account-cleared-for-child-support-money-90288342.html By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "A 91-year-old man whose relatives allegedly tried to smuggle his corpse onto a plane died of natural causes up to 12 hours before they were supposed to depart, according to British police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-corpse-on-plane,0,2953892.story By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "... Females were more likely than males to have body piercing, which was associated with a wide range of potentially harmful behaviors, such as alcohol use, smoking, drug use, high-risk sex, Russian roulette and problem gambling. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97163.html By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "If you're unhappy in life, you're unlikely to find satisfaction at work, say researchers who reviewed the findings of 223 studies conducted between 1967 and 2008." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97164.html By Bangor Daily News 4/1/2010 "A dispute over a dog Tuesday night led to the arrest of a Northport woman on charges of domestic violence terrorizing and violation of a protection order." Read the entire article: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/140196.html By BBC News – United Kingdom 4/6/2010 "...The results of the survey of 1,000 parents suggest around 6% of fathers, or 600,000 men, are now their child's primary carer, up from 60,000 in 2000. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8605824.stm By The Telegraph – United Kingdom 4/7/2010 "...We lost the sex war but most of us are happy about it, and I don’t know any father who doesn’t appreciate and cherish every second he spends with his child. But the speed of social change is quite remarkable, with new reports suggesting that not only has the number of stay-at-home fathers increased by ten fold, so has the average amount of time that fathers spend with their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100033107/british-society-is-divided-between-the-super-dads-and-the-absent-ones/ By CDC -- Press Release 4/6/2010 "The teen birth rate in the United States fell 2 percent between 2007 and 2008, after rising the previous two years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100406.htm By E-Online 4/7/2010 "...As his lawyer promised yesterday, the reality-TV dad has asked a Pennsylvania judge for primary custody of his eight kids with Kate Gosselin. By FoxNews.com 4/9/2010 "Teachers of controversial sexual education program could face charges under new law." Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4142737/criminal-charges-for-teaching-sex-ed/?playlist_id=87249 By ScienceDaily.com 4/1/2010 "A new study has found that fathers give toddlers more leeway and that allows them to actively explore their environments, according to a new study on parent-child attachment published inEarly Child Development and Care." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100331091145.htm By ScienceDaily.com 3/29/2010 "New research from the University of Reading says that children, especially boys, who have insecure attachments to their mothers in the early years have more behaviour problems later in childhood." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325093124.htm By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "Two female teachers from James Madison High School in Brooklyn are being charged with misconduct after allegedly being caught naked together in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lesbian-teachers,0,4379659.story By KTLA.com 4/1/2010 "A 45-year-old mother is accused of leaving her 4-year-old daughter in a Range Rover while she shopped at Nordstrom in Mission Viejo, according to a sheriff's deputy." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-child-car-mom-shops,0,2318188.story By The Local 3/10/2010 "A young Swedish woman who falsely accused her father of rape will now face charges of her own." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/25654/20100321/ By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/30/2010 "...One would think the Obama administration and Congress would take a long, sober look at Head Start; These are damning findings for a program that has been "tweaked" for 45 years at a cumulative cost of some $167 billion. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/30/wetzstein-is-head-start-a-sacred-cow/ By Medline Plus 3/29/2010 "Men who drink about a quart or more of cola every day could be causing harm to their sperm, results of a Danish study hint." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96992.html By Times Online – United Kingdom 3/27/2010 "Modern dads are different. We read books about fatherhood, we talk to our friends about fatherhood, we seek emotional engagement and we make educational sock puppets. " Read the entire article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article7071005.ece By The Independent Women's Forum 3/30/2010 "In Sunday's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about Richard Whitmire’s new book “Why Boys Fail,” which, yet again, produces evidence that boys are falling behind girls in school." Read the entire article: http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/show/22818.html By Nicholas D. Kristof 3/27/2010 "...Yet these days, the opposite problem has sneaked up on us: In the United States and other Western countries alike, it is mostly boys who are faltering in school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28kristof.html By CNN 1/21/2010 "...“We have talked so much about equal education for men and women in the past decades,” says Sun Yunxiao, author of the book and a professor at China's Teenager Research Center, “but we neglected the fact that boys and girls should be educated differently at school.”..." By nlrTimes 3/19/2010 "Images of domestic violence usually focus on a man beating his female partner, but the Jacksonville Police Department’s recent incident reports reveal that is not always the case." Read the entire article: http://www.nlrtimes.com/articles/2010/03/20/jacksonville_patriot/local_news/nws04.txthttp://www.nlrtimes.com/articles/2010/03/20/jacksonville_patriot/local_news/nws04.txt By Huffington Post 3/25/2010 "...Another spokesperson for unfair treatment to men is Dr. Gordon Finley a psychology professor from Florida. He feels that the Obama administration has bypassed boys and men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-blumenfield-md/why-would-anyone-protest_b_512080.html By ABCNews.com 3/23/2010 "...My main message is to all those women out there who might have their eyes on some guy that is married to not come between anybody," Cynthia Shackelford told "Good Morning America" today. "It's not good to go in there. It hurts the children. My children are devastated. I'm devastated. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/wife-wins-million-husbands-alleged-mistress/story?id=10177637 Read the entire article: By Philly.com 3/18/2010 "Renada Williams told her alleged cohorts in crime that her lover had raped her and that she had come up with a horrific plan of revenge, which left one police veteran cold." Read the entire article: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100318_Cops__Woman_s_lie_about_rape_led_to_lover_s_beating__sodomy.html By Kivitv ABC 6 3/15/2010 "Young males who have consensual sex with their 16- or 17-year-old girlfriends would be shielded from rape charges, under a bill passed 35-0 by the Senate." Read the entire article: http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12143563 By NEWS.com.au - Australia 3/22/2010 "DIVORCE has a major financial impact, and it doesn't matter who paid for what when you separate assets." Read the entire article: http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/readying-for-the-financial-hit-of-divorce/story-e6frfmd9-1225843542671
By New York Times 3/7/2010 "Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/education/08educ.html?scp=14&sq=sam%20dillon&st=cse By FoxNews.com 3/19/2010 "The competence of diligent dads helping out at home is damaging the self-esteem of "super-moms" who feel caught between work and traditional child-rearing roles, according to a new study revealed by LiveScience." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589645,00.html By Chicago Tribune 3/5/2010 "The entire senior class at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/chi-100305chicago-charter-school-graduates,0,2406746.story By Regina Medina -- Philadelphia Daily News 3/17/2010 "His ex, Renada Williams, 28, told him she did, too, but Philadelphia police said she had on her mind a brutal plan of revenge against him." Read the entire article: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100317_He_had_thoughts_of_lovin___she_had_other_plans_for_him.html By FoxNews.com 3/18/2010 "The Pennsylvania woman who called herself "JihadJane" in alleged efforts to help Islamic terrorists reportedly has confessed to the FBI about her involvement in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/18/report-jihad-jane-confesses-fbi/ By CNN.com 3/18/2010 "A wave of suicides at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a "public health crisis," the school's mental health initiatives director said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/18/cornell.suicides/index.html By Medline Plus 3/16/2010 "Researchers have succeeded in freezing away breast and prostate tumors in a small number of patients, opening a promising door to a new generation of cancer treatments." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96454.html Child support is more complicated than The Sun realizes -- Readers ResponseWednesday, 17 March 2010
By Baltimore Sun - Readers Response -- 3/16/2010 "Your view for increasing the child support guidelines ("A matter of fairness," Feb. 12) shows your lack of understanding of the real world and how families live." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bal-supportletter0315,0,6807030.story By Delmarva Daily Times - Maryland 3/16/2010 "...The parents were charged after the deputy witnessed physical injuries on both parents, according to police. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100316/NEWS01/100316036/1002/WICOMICO-CRIME--Fight-over-child-support-leads-to-assault-charges By CBS5 -- Healdsburg 3/12/2009 "... The woman claiming to be a victim of domestic violence was identified as 20-year-old Patricia Manning. Read the entire article: http://cbs5.com/crime/healdsburg.car.sale.2.1557010.html By FoxNews.com 3/14/2010 "One naval officer, lead Petty Officer Juan Ramos, 29, lives this sacrifice. A flight deck supervisor aboard the USS Eisenhower, Ramos spends up to six months at a time away from his wife and six children." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589215,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/15/2010 "...Martin Horn, now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said female workers who have sex with inmates are often treated less harshly by officials than male worker who do the same. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589222,00.html
By FoxNews.com 3/15/2010 "A court convicted the governing party's youth leader of hate speech Monday after he said the woman who once accused South Africa's president of rape had had a "nice time" because she stayed the night and asked for taxi money." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589271,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/13/2010 "Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!"..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589147,00.html By AOL News 3/10/2010 "American men are four times more likely than women to take their own lives. It's a troubling phenomenon, rooted in such factors as genetics, upbringing and even career choice. But a growing body of research suggests that divorce is one of the major culprits in suicides among adult males." Read the entire article: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/suicide-rate-greater-among-divorced-men-research-finds/19388300?sms_ss=email By ScienceDaily.com 2/18/2010 "...But the increase in the proportion of young drivers involved in fatal crashes with positive blood alcohol tests at all times of the week was greater among young women than it was among young men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100217224233.htm By ABC News 3/12/2010 "Couples in Australia having fertility treatment could soon be able to choose their babies' sex." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/13/2844925.htm By KTLA.com 3/12/2010 "A Santa Ana man may be a possible bone marrow donor for a 10-year-old girl with leukemia, but now he's being told he's too overweight to donate." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bone-marry-weight,0,567099.story By MSNBC.com 3/12/2010 "...Keith Bulluck, a 10-year NFL veteran, posted on Twitter that he’s “not saying it can’t be done or shouldn’t be done. Football is clearly a mans sport & it’s 2 be seen how young men take to their coach being a woman.”..." Read the entire article: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35839852/ns/sports-other_sports/ By WYFF Greenville – South Carolina 3/9/2010 "Greenville sheriff’s deputies are looking for a woman who they say forged child support checks and taking other checks that she wrote to herself." Read the entire article: http://www.wyff4.com/news/22785847/detail.html By FoxNews.com "Imagine getting a full salary and benefits for doing absolutely nothing. If you’re a teacher in the United States, you can – you just have to be accused of a crime. States all over the country dole out millions of taxpayer dollars every year to teachers who aren't even permitted to set foot in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2010/02/23/teachers?slide=4 By FoxNews.com 3/10/2010 "A 7-year-old boy who called 911 while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and delivered a high five to the dispatcher who took his call." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588684,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By Los Angeles Times 3/10/2010 "The American woman, 46, faces terrorism charges. An old boyfriend 'can't believe it,' and a former acquaintance calls the suspect naive." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-jihad-jane11-2010mar11,0,3972459.story By MedlinePlus 3/9/2010 "Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, and blacks and Hispanics are at highest risk of developing the disease, a new report finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96179.html By MedlinePlus 3/9/2010 "...The authors of the study, published in the March 10 issue of BMJ, also created a novel measure called "sexually active life expectancy." According to this new measure, men aged 55 could expect another 15 years of sex while women of the same age could expect 10.6 more active years. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96195.html Overall, however, more men reported a satisfying sex life than women, a chasm that widened as people aged. By ScienceDaily.com 3/10/2010 "Psychology researchers exploring relational aggression and victimisation in 11-13 year olds have found adolescent boys have a similar understanding and experience of 'mean' behaviours and 'bitchiness' as girls." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302093342.htm By Highland Today 3/5/2010 "A 68-year-old woman who was arrested Saturday in connection with her husband's murder, "carefully planned" the death, and the incident is related to domestic violence, her arrest report states." Read the entire article: http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2010/mar/05/la-mans-murder-tied-to-domestic-violence-authoriti/ By FoxNews.com 3/8/2010 "A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy, sparking online debate Sunday in the local media." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588369,00.html?test=latestnews By People.com 3/8/2010 "..."I'd just like to say thank you to everybody," she said. "As you see I have amazing support from great men, my family, my brothers. God was very wise when he put me into a family with honorable men because they have served as examples for my children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20349621,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. -- Mens News Daily 2/25/2010 "As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid unquestionably is one of the nation’s most powerful political figures. So, as Majority Leader, how could he be so wrong on Domestic Violence?" Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/02/25/reidgate-where-did-harry-go-wrong/ By AJC 3/3/2010 "A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-charged-with-killing-344266.html From You Tube "...He said: “Men don't have jobs. Women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive, most of the time. Men when they're out of work tend to become abusive."..." To Watch the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTc8X9AJpmE By KTLA.com 3/3/2010 "Six students at Stoneman Elementary School have been suspended after a fifth-grade girl allegedly brought a pot-laced dessert to school Monday and shared it with her friends." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fruity-pepples-pot,0,6936811.story By Providence Journal – Rhode Island 2/21/2010 "...Apparently, child-welfare systems have been part of the problem. Glantz says that while social-service workers are getting better about involving dads in their children’s lives, actually, “Fatherhood is a relatively new field. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.projo.com/education/juliasteiny/content/EDWATCH_21_02-21-10_LCHFEIR_v9.2937bd2.html By People.com 2/26/2010 "...In regard to the brother's shooting, Keating said at a Thursday press conference that serious mistakes were likely made in the initial investigation of Seth Bishop's death, and that witnesses gave conflicting stories describing the crime scene – making the DA wonder if perhaps the tragedy in Alabama could have been avoided has a more thorough probe occurred in 1986." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20347289,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By ScienceDaily.com 1/31/2010 "...The prevailing theory is that the difference has evolutionary origins: Men learned over eons to be hyper-vigilant about sex because they can never be absolutely certain they are the father of a child, while women are much more concerned about having a partner who is committed to raising a family. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126123210.htm By Katie Weiss -- Crikey 2/26/2010 "When it comes to violence against women, “Australia Says No”. But what happens when women are the ones committing these crimes against other women?" Read the entire article: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/26/violence-against-women-we-say-no-except-from-another-woman/ By BBC 2/25/2010 "...Parliament is also considering outlawing psychological violence in the home, because it is seen by many as a precursor to physical violence. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8537591.stm By Huffington Post 2/23/2010 "A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars herself, saying she was riven with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/biurny-peguero-fake-rape_n_473890.html By Muncie Star Press - Indiana 1/23/2010 "...Delaware County police arrested Mansfield's daughter, Amy Jo Barker, 41, at his Briar Road home Friday evening on a four-year-old civil warrant. The warrant was issued after Barker failed to appear for a court date concerning unpaid child support she owes to her ex-husband, Clifford McKee. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100223/BUSTED/2230316 By IrishExaminer.com – Ireland/United Kingdom 2/25/2010 "The report, entitled Family Figures: Family Dynamics and Family Types in Ireland, 1986-2006, shows that most women now wait until their 30s to have children, that marital breakdown has levelled off in recent years and that when marriages fall apart the child stays with the father in one-in-eight cases." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.ie/home/family-matters-112895.html By ntNews 2/24/2010 (Warning -- Disturbing Video) "...It is alleged that the footage from the Palmerston bus exchange shows a woman throwing her 10-month-old baby on the ground after her partner left on a bus without her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/24/126761_ntnews.html Read the entire article: By FoxNews.com 2/25/2010 "A personal assistant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of her punk-rock manager boss in New York City." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587283,00.html By Leonard Pitts Jr. -- Miami Herald 2/17/2010 "...We used to have a saying: It takes a man to make a baby. I'm beginning to think that, at least for some of us, the opposite is true: It takes a baby to make a man. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/17/1483854/what-it-takes-to-be-a-man.html By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. -- Miami Herald 2/21/2010 "Re Leonard Pitts Jr.'s Feb. 17 column, What it takes to be a man: I thank Pitts for his moving testimonial to his son, a father. If more reporters, columnists and newspapers printed positive portrayals of fathers, children, mothers, fathers and society would be better off, which social-science research confirms regularly." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/21/1490445/fathers-matter.html By Culpeper Star Exponent - Virginia 2/22/2010 "...In 2005, Bayh introduced his Responsible Fatherhood Act, which “called for community outreach to raise awareness of the impact fatherlessness has on children and communities, as well as workshops to help men find jobs and receive training so they can live up to their responsibilities as fathers.”..." Read the entire article: http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/opinion/columnists/article/departing_indiana_senator_exceled_by_pushing_for_stronger_families/52676/ By ABC News 2/22/2010 "Sexual slavery involving boys as young as 10 is being condoned and in many cases protected by authorities in northern Afghanistan." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826024.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/29/2010 "Would you trust men to take a 'male pill'? That's the question posed to 380 people in North East England by a team from Teesside University which questioned people about the male contraceptive pill currently undergoing trials." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100128110227.htm By San Diego City Beat "...Remondino died in 1926, but his ideas lived on. Federal vital statistics show circumcision among newborn males grew from around 30 percent in 1932 to approximately 70 percent in 1971. In the 1970s, however, the medical community swung around, asserting there was no evidence of any medical benefits to circumcision. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/circumspection/8895/
By Ruth Bettelheim -- New York Times 2/18/2010 "...What children need instead are no-fault custody proceedings — which could be accomplished with two changes to state family law. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/opinion/18bettelheim.html
By Medline Plus 2/17/2010 "...People who are enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than less happy people, researchers from Columbia University report. In this prospective study of the relationship between happiness and heart disease, researchers concluded that if everyone did more of the things that made them happy, they could significantly reduce their risk of heart attack and angina." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95393.html By ABC News -- Australia 2/18/2010 "...The woman - who cannot be named - admitted to gassing her eight-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter at her Sandstone Point home in 2002. She claimed a defence of diminished responsibility due to an unsound mind. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/19/2825333.htm By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. 2/17/2010 "...For most men, there are no pluses, as the social attitudes accompanying this social revolution have depreciated, demeaned and denigrated them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/17/equal-opportunity-better-than-ardent-feminism/ By Suzanne Fields -- Washington Times 2/11/2010 "Men are marrying up. Increasing numbers of men are marrying women with more education and a bigger paycheck than they have." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/11/the-sexual-devolution/ By David Brooks -- New York Times 2/15/2010 "...The biggest impact is on men. Over the past few decades, men have lagged behind women in acquiring education and skills. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at age 22, 185 women have graduated from college for every 100 men who have done so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/opinion/16brooks.html By News Channel 7 – North Carolina 2/16/2010 "Levi Robertson says lately he has been spending a lot of time in courthouses across the Upstate. He said a child he fathered more than a decade ago recently was adopted by another family but the child's mother was still cashing his child support checks." Read the entire article: http://www.mensenews.org/administrator/index.php
By Las Vegas Sun 2/8/2010 "A man who once earned between $500,000 and $4 million a year in the stock market should have a chance to get his child support payments reduced now that the economy has soured and his earnings have declined, a court has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/08/court-man-should-get-chance-lowered-child-support/ By LaTimesBlog 2/19/2010 "The golfer did not, as might be expected, apologize to his mistresses. But attorney Gloria Allread, who is representing mistress Joselyn James, says her client deserves her own apology. Allred and James staged a news conference this morning after the golfer's speech." Read the entire article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/02/preach-it-do-tiger-woods-mistresses-deserve-an-apology.html By KTLA.com 2/15/2010 "Southwest Airlines is under fire after Hollywood director Kevin Smith was kicked off a recent flight for being overweight." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-kevin-smith,0,2926261.story By KTLA.com 2/11/2010 "British police say they've charged a 33-year-old woman with stabbing a man through the eye with her stiletto heel." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-stiletto-stabbing,0,4790193.story By KTLA.com 2/12/2010 "...A fortune-teller and her daughter were brutally murdered by a client because a love spell didn't work, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. Tanya Nelson, is accused of stabbing Ha "Jade" Smith and her 23-year-old daughter, Anita Vo.. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fortune-teller-murder,0,2124028.story By Utica Observer Dispatch, New York 2/11/2010 "Koziol has previously railed against the payments, calling them a violation of civil rights that disproportionately affect men, who are less likely to be awarded custody of their children than are women." Read the entire article: http://www.uticaod.com/features/x196130039/Koziol-has-law-license-suspended By Examiner.com -- Ohio 2/12/2010 "...To make matters even worse, police say that Avila-Villa committed the murder so that authorities would not discover that the father of the child is a 14-year old teennager. Avila-Villa feared that paternity would be discovered because she applied for welfare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-30844-Cincinnati-Crime-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Woman-heads-to-court-charged-with-murdering-her-baby By USA Today 2/12/2010 "...Three others were wounded in the incident Friday — a rare instance of a woman being accused in a mass shooting. Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-12-alabama-university-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By WBUR.org 2/9/2010 "..As Rich put it, "When you are hypervigilant or jumpy, or always on guard, you can go from 0 to 60 in a very short time. So a young person who is on the bus, somebody steps on his foot and suddenly somebody gets stabbed or shot."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wbur.org/npr/122791527 By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D -- The Reality Check 2/3/2010 "...Second, President Obama established the first cabinet level White House Council on Women and Girls. However, all sound social and economic science data argues for the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men. Specifically, boys and men are falling behind at all levels of education from elementary to graduate and professional schools. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.therealitycheck.org/?p=11092 By Kathleen Parker -- The Washington Post 2/10/2010 "Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud's famous question -- What do women want? -- with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020902466.html By ScienceDaily.com 2/12/2010 "...Sandra Stith, a professor of family studies and human services, said most research has looked at men as offenders and women as victims. "In the research on college students in particular, we're finding both men and women can be perpetrators," she said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212112028.htm By Forbes.com 2/11/2010 "Over the past decade the National Science Foundation has funneled $135 million into a "gender bias program" called Advance." Read the entire article: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0301/opinions-women-national-science-foundation-on-my-mind.html By USA Today 2/9/2010 "The Army needs to double its staff of substance-abuse counselors to handle the soaring numbers of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's No. 2 officer." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-02-09-treatment-army-alcohol_N.htm?POE=click-refer By CBS News 2/8/2010 "Calgary's Catholic school board is considering setting up all-boys schools, while the public board – concerned about boys' performances in the classrooms – is researching the issue." By Bruce Watson -- Daily Finance 1/30/2010 "Amid the media frenzy over Tiger Woods and Bengals receiver Chris Henry, a key aspect of both stories slipped through the cracks: Like millions of other men, Woods and Henry were -- allegedly at least -- the victims of domestic violence perpetrated by their wives or girlfriends." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/a-hidden-crime-domestic-violence-against-men-is-a-growing-probl/19297449/ By Miami Herald 2/1/2010 "..."We're looking at a lot of significant funding increases for women's programs in a year when the president has ordered a three-year, non-security, discretionary spending freeze,'' said Kate Bedingfield, a White House spokesman. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1456615.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A woman who tied up a cheating lover and glued his penis to his stomach said Tuesday that she didn't mean to hurt him and only overreacted because he was trying to contact her 12-year-old daughter." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584646,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 " A 22-year-old woman stabbed her two young sons to death, then calmly held her wrists out to police officers who arrived at her home and said "I killed my babies," authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584677,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A student in New Zealand has auctioned her virginity to a stranger for almost $31,900 to help fund her university tuition fees." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584674,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "The mother of a 6-year-old whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary is suing the school system." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584679,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.236636:b30221322:z0 By Trudy Schuett -- CliffviewPilot.com 2/2/2010 "If there’s anything I’ve learned in 10 years of advocacy for unserved victims of partner abuse, it’s that men don’t tell. Yes, the U.S. Dept. of Justice says there about 840,000 male victims of domestic violence each year. But those are just the ones who've reported it." Read the entire article: http://cliffviewpilot.com/beyond/998-the-silent-victims-battered-husbands By Carey Roberts -- RenewAmerica.com 2/1/2010 "Practically everyone in town knows Amy Dugas is a serial batterer. But the Maine criminal justice system keeps finding ways to keep her from facing the music." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roberts/100201 By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 1/31/2010 "...Not so long ago it would have been unthinkable, but one woman in five now earns more than her husband or boyfriend. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/01/rise-of-female-breadwinners-as-one-in-five-women-earn-more-than-their-partner/ By ScienceDaily.com 1/26/2010 "Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University of Chicago shows." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125172940.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/1/2010 "The act and victimization of bullying continues to be a problem among today's youth. While many children are experiencing this form of violence, it is more prevalent in children that are different from the social norm. As medical professionals continue to further their understanding of bullying, research shows a high rate of sexual minority youth who experience this harmful activity." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127182503.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/2/2010 "The most powerful sexual organ, it's said, is the brain. Now here's the evidence. New research from Rockefeller University shows that an overly excitable brain hastens sexual activity in male mice and increases their nervous energy, a finding that not only points to the existence of a central brain mechanism that gives rise to all behaviors but also begins to untangle the driving force behind all motivational and emotional states." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100131190730.htm By FoxNews.com 1/28/2010 "Prosecutors say a 41-year-old Nebraska woman had sex nightly with her teenage son when he was in seventh and eighth grade." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584112,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r1:c0.000000:b0:z5 By USA TODAY 1/28/2010 "A letter carrier who has worked in this town for the past nine years has been charged with stealing cash, gift cards, debit and credit cards from the very mail she was paid to deliver, authorities said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-01-28-mail-carrier-theft_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By Atlanta Journal Constitution 1/27/2010 "...National statistics show that fewer than 41 percent of black males graduate from high school, and fewer than 4 percent attend college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/jobless-black-men-are-285227.html By WSAZ-TV – West Virginia 1/28/2010 "...Each inmate is required to have a job, help out around the facility, pay court costs, child support and put money away for their release. They are randomly drug tested and checked on at work. They are allowed two two-hour passes a week to do things like go to the bank and get hair cuts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/82843807.html By Telegraph-Journal 1/27/2010 "After beating him with a frying pan and stabbing him with a kitchen knife, a Rothesay woman avoided jailtime and returned home with her victim/boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/933966 By News-Leader.com - Missouri 1/19/2010 "...In addition, men have been disproportionately hit by the downturn's impact on industries like manufacturing and construction. That's critical because nearly 83 percent of custodial parents are women, leaving men to pay most child support obligations. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100119/LIFE04/1190304/Job+loss+hinders+child+support+payments By ScienceDaily.com 1/24/2010 "Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121101124.htm By Sharon Jayson -- USA TODAY 1/26/2010 "Teenage boys and young men may talk a lot about sex, but often the only ones listening are their peers." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-boysandsex_ST_N.htm By Sharon Jayson -- USA TODAY 1-26-2010 "The teen pregnancy rate in the USA rose 3% in 2006, the first increase in more than a decade, according to data out today." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-1Ateenpregnancy26_ST_N.htm By Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn -- Pew Research Center – USA "The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth." Read the entire article: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress By DailyTelegraph 1/18/2010 "A BUSINESSMAN is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers sitting next to children they don't know. The policy applies even if the child's parents are on the same flight." Read the entire article: http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/01/18/122301_travel.html By This is London – United Kingdom 1/20/2010 "...Studies have shown that the young rely more on their fathers for factual information and look to their mothers for day-to-day care and emotional support: children are twice as likely to receive A's in school when their fathers are involved in their education. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/health/article-23797302-its-not-just-politics---families-do-need-fathers.do By Washington Post 1/21/2010 "...The big news about this report has centered on the fact that there's been a shift in gender roles. A larger share of men in 2007, compared with their 1970 counterparts, were married to women whose educations and incomes exceeded their own. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004769.html?sub=AR By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA 1/16/2010 "...While some have argued that this shift in custody decisions punishes successful women, many seem to think that it is evidence of a system that is finally evening out. Indeed, for years, women were given the benefit of the doubt in child custody cases. Now, the court is treating mothers and fathers more equally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/dads-gaining-child-custody-more-often-132761.php By Reuters - USA 1/20/2010 "...In the new study, researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut found that sons of teenage fathers were 80 percent more likely to have a child before age 20 compared with their peers born to older fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60J54720100120 By NY Daily News 1/12/2010 "A case that bitterly divided the parents and fiancée of a firefighter killed on 9/11 has finally ended with a Brooklyn judge's decision that she will get half his pension for the rest of her life." By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "A New Jersey mother said her 8-year-old son faces extra scrutiny from TSA agents when he flies because his name appears on a "selectee" list, The New York Times reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583031,00.html?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "The first criminal case involving "sexting" reached a U.S. appeals court on Friday — a case that asks whether racy cell-phone photos of three girls amount to child pornography or child's play." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583104,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/14/2010 "..."In the public mind, acts of teenage violence are most commonly associated with boys," the report observed, but "it is clear that the problem is pervasive among girls as well."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583007,00.html By MSNBC.com 1/15/2010 "The number of working moms who are the sole breadwinners in their families rose last year to an all-time high, and the number of stay-at-home dads edged higher, in a shift of traditional gender roles caused partly by massive job losses." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34880372/ns/business-careers/ By MSNBC.com 1/12/2010 "Caffeine has a stronger effect on boys than on girls, finds a new study that zeros in on the drug's health impacts on adolescents." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34831879/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ By Mail Online 12/5/2009 "A wife who cried rape because she felt guilty about cheating on her husband in their home was spared jail yesterday." By ScienceDaily.com 1/8/2010 "Black men are over-diagnosed with schizophrenia at least five times higher than any other group -- a trend that dates back to the 1960s, according to new University of Michigan research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100106193432.htm# By Medline Plus 1/12/2010 "The brains of men and women handle stress differently and that alters the way their bodies experience chronic diseases such as depression, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disorders, U.S. researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94004.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 1/12/2010 "...Any home-visit program should be tweaked to ensure that the outcomes for boys are as robust as those for the girls, especially in black families. A good starting point, says child advocacy lawyer Ronald K. Henry, is to "view both parents as targets of the program."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/12/wetzstein-program-needs-to-include-dads/?page=2 By Cheryl Wezstein -- Washington Times 1/12/2010 "...The program could increase "matriarchal dominance" in poor neighborhoods already awash with absent-father homes, said Gordon E. Finley, a psychology professor at Florida International University who writes on gender roles. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/12/obama-plan-funds-nurse-visits-to-new-moms/?page=2 By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum 12/25/2009 "...Doesn't the First Amendment extend to fathers? Apparently not if they are divorced. This case sounds extreme, but it is a good illustration of how family courts, the lowest in the judicial hierarchy, have become the most dictatorial of all courts because of the tremendous number of families and amounts of private money they control and the lack of accountability for their decisions." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2009/dec09/09-12-25.html By Katherine Kersten -- Star Tribune.com 12/2/2009 "...In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/70662162.html?page=1&c=y By Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom 1/10/2010 "Emma Chapelhow, 13, claimed that the £43,000 the CSA was demanding her father, David, pay to his former partner, her mother, would bankrupt him and significantly impact on her lifestyle, and threatened to sue to the agency over a breach of its duty of care to her." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6961718/Reprieve-for-hero-father-over-Child-Support-Agency-demand.html By WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Kentucky 1/5/2010 "...Family Rights Lawyer Louis Winner tells us another part of the problem. Many of his male clients don't want to ask for child support from women. Winner said, "it becomes a little more difficult for the father to say you know what, I need to go after and get child support because it's the right thing to do and it costs money to raise children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Public-list-shows-rising-number-of-deadbeat-moms-80739297.html By Deceiver.com 12/24/2009 "...But didn’t Mary J. Blige just open a domestic-violence shelter in New York last month?..." Read the entire article: http://deceiver.com/2009/12/24/domestic-violence-crusader-mary-j-blige-slugs-husband/ By ScienceDaily.com 1/5/2010 "Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105112303.htm
By FoxNews.com 1/4/2010 "Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word, according to a British survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely to struggle to learn to speak as girls." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581897,00.html By FoxNews.com 12/19/2009 "...On one hand, no other U.S. youth organization has served as many boys — an estimated 112 million over the years — and is so deeply ingrained in the Norman Rockwell version of American popular culture. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580644,00.html By Mid Day.com 12/16/2009 "A Hyderabad-based women's NGO joins hands with its male counterparts against the Shave India Campaign" Read the entire article: http://www.mid-day.com//news/2009/dec/161209-shave-india-campaign-gillette-AIFWA-uma-challa.htm The NSDUH Report 12/17/2009 "...Adolescent boys and girls have historically exhibited different rates of violence, with girls reporting lower rates. From 1991 to 2000, however, arrests of girls increased more rapidly than arrests of boys, and girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests in 2004. ..." Read the entire article: http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/171/171FemaleViolence.htm By Vineland Daily Journal – New Jersey 12/24/2009 "A Millville woman wanted on a warrant for failure to pay child support was arrested Tuesday night by Vineland police." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20091224/NEWS01/912240324 By Vineland Daily Journal – New Jersey 12/21/2009 "Addie Collins, 35, is being sought on a Cumberland County Superior Court Family Warrant for failure to pay $15,958.38 in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20091221/NEWS01/912210309 By Susan Donaldson James -- ABC News 12/1/2009 "...For seven years, until Michigan child welfare workers intervened when he was 11, Milligan was too ashamed to reveal that his tormentor was his own mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mother-son-incest-rise-report-sex-abuse-agencies/story?id=9209454 By ScienceDaily.com 12/18/2009 "It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use their new phones depends on their gender." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217183059.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/10/2009 "Using a new noninvasive imaging technique, scientists said they have discovered important, fundamental differences in heart motion by age and gender." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208162652.htm# By ScienceDaily 12/16/2009 "...Almost 14,000 people filled in the Dance Style Questionnaire and the results show that although up to the age of 16, men lack confidence in their dance moves, after that their dance confidence rises steadily with men over the age of 65 having higher ratings than men between the ages of 55 and 60." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215155653.htm By YahooNews 12/15/2009 "...In the geeky environment, women were significantly less interested than men in computer science, while there was no gender difference for the non-stereotypical classroom. Female students in the stereotypical environment said they felt less similar to computer-science majors than did those in the classroom that wasn't geeked out. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091215/sc_livescience/geeksdrivegirlsoutofcomputerscience By Jacques Steinberg -- New York Times/Education 12/2/2009 "On Oct. 23, The Choice published a post by Cate Doty that noted, “For every 100 American women enrolled in college, there are only 77 men. And for every 100 women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, only 73 men accomplish that.” Read the entire article: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/postscript-gender/?scp=5&sq=boys%20and%20schools&st=cse By National Post 12/8/2009 "...But they're only men, so who cares. Not feminists. One of the great curiosities of the feminist movement is their indifference to male victimization by both male and female perpetrators. ..." By The Frisky 11/25/2009 "Ever since Tiger Woods was in that car accident last week and rumors swirled that his wife Elin Nordegren had scratched his face during a fight (and may have gone after him with a golf club) there’s been buzz about female-on-male domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-thoughts-from-guys-on-our-im-has-a-girlfriend-ever-hit-you/ By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm By Dr. Tara J. Palmatier -- Mens News Daily 11/30/2009 "Ain’t love grand! Being involved with an emotionally and/or physically abusive woman can do quite a number on you." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/11/30/betrayal-trauma-how-men-are-affected-by-abusive-women/ By Wall Street Journal 11/27/2009 "...The unemployment rate for men, 11.4%, based on seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, outpaces the rate for women, 8.8%. We now have the largest jobless gender gap since tracking became possible in 1948. ..." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574531453974382142.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
"The MENS society has been officially recognised by the University of Manchester Students’ Union, following a change of name as requested by the union." Read the entire article: http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2009/11/mens-society-becomes-official-union-society/ By Medline Plus 12/8/2009 "The human heart twists and turns as it beats, and a German study shows how the twisting and turning differs between men and women, and young and old." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_92770.html By Medline Plus 12/8/2009 "People associate testosterone with aggressiveness, but the male sex hormone actually encourages a sense of fair play, a new study finds. Testosterone does not cause aggression, said lead researcher Michael Naef, of the department of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_92767.html By Cathy Young -- Reason 12/4/2009 "As the news of golf superstar Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs spills all over the media, a fascinating—and disturbing—subplot to the story has become a revealing litmus test of societal attitudes toward gender and domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/04/tiger-woods-and-domestic-viole By Tom Shales -- Washington Post 12/7/2009 "There's something rare and wonderful about "Men of a Certain Age," and yet it keeps seeming either vaguely or highly familiar. ..."Midlife" takes in a lot of territory: such related subjects as divorce, fear of aging, fear of dying, fear of abandonment and, of course, fear of fear. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602273.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/2/2009 "Ninety-six percent of low-income mothers who participated in a recent study on gender-based distrust indicated a strong general feeling of distrust of the opposite sex. However, this general distrust towards men did not prevent them from entering into a marriage, live-in, or romantic relationship." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202114044.htm By Houston Chronicle 12/7/2009 "As far as Hugh E. McGee III was concerned, the “tipping point” was yet one more innocuous Kinkaid School tradition that the politically correct crowd didn't get. It was nothing more than harmless fun, a simple case of boys being boys — or in this case, boys being girls — until the oversensitive liberals stepped in and ruined it for everybody." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6756272.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fmetro+%28chron.com+-+Houston+%26+Texas%29 By Boston Globe - Massachusetts 12/2/2009 "...There is a problem, though. For a dad to be involved, it takes a mom to be inclusive. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/community/moms/blogs/child_caring/2009/12/benefits_of_fat.html By FoxNews.com 11/24/2009 "Women can be cruel, and they often do cruel things to men. Despite their reputation as the fairer sex, when it comes to relationships, sometimes women can be downright nasty." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576585,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FOX Charlotte – North Carolina 12/1/2009 "...More women going back to work. Earning more money. And suddenly able to pay more child support. But they might not want to. Hollen talked about a recent case, saying "The mom said that she was only working part time and couldn't get to work. Come to find out she had a car, she had her own place, she was working full time."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/deadbeat_moms_120209 By Janesville Gazette - Wisconsin 12/1/2009 "...Family breakups are generally just as financially difficult for fathers as for mothers. Women’s advocates often claim that divorced or separated mothers are quickly reduced to poverty, while newly single fathers enjoy large increases in their standards of living. Once again, this is outright nonsense. ..." Read the entire article: http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/dec/01/deadbeat-dads-term-unfair-caring-fathers/ By The Frisky 11/29/2009 "Most colleges these days have a women’s group and lots of colleges have a Women’s Studies, or even better, a Gender & Sexuality Studies program. But recently, male students at Oxford University and Manchester University in the U.K. have started their very own “men’s groups” to work through their issues with the current state of dude-dom. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-young-men-at-oxford-university-start-their-own-masculinity-club/ By Guardian.co.uk 11/24/2009 "I realise I am walking willingly into the snares of the toxic sisterhood by admitting this, but as a woman (and elected students' union officer) I think the new crop of male-specific support groups that are springing up across universities is actually a pretty good sign." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/24/mens-groups-students-gender By Health Education Research - USA "...Teenage pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at young women have received considerable attention from researchers and programme developers. However, to date, relatively limited information is available on preventing teenage fatherhood or improving outcomes for young fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/6/999 By ScienceDaily.com 11/16/2009 "A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers' prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116085040.htm By Gather.com - USA 11/19/2009 "...Based on U.S. Census data, non-custodial mothers are 20% more likely to default on their child support obligations than non-custodial fathers. This is despite the fact that non-custodial mothers are less likely to be required to pay child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909476 By ScienceDaily.com 11/19/2009 "Males have more pronounced personalities than females across a range of species -- from humans to house sparrows -- according to new research. Consistent personality traits, such as aggression and daring, are also more important to females when looking for a mate than they are to males. Research from the University of Exeter draws together a range of studies to reveal the role that sexual selection plays in this disparity between males and females." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117191052.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "A new study in the Journal of American College Health finds that students placed by their universities in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students placed in all-male or all-female housing." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094833.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091118112425.htm By FoxNews.com 11/19/2009 "Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575590,00.html By Working Mothers – USA "Are more women facing the impossible choice between keeping a career that pays the bills and living with their children? When it comes to heartbreaking custody wars, people inside and outside the courts say that the growing number of stay-at-home dads and breadwinner moms means more working mothers are fighting an unprecedented uphill battle." Read the entire article: http://www.workingmother.com/web?service=direct/1/ViewRotatingPortlet/RotatingPortalBlocks/dlinkArticle&sp=S2868&sp=120 By New York Times - New York 11/17/2009 "...It is filled with tales of women who were the primary earners in a marriage, and who watched their husbands gain primary physical custody of their children when the marriage ended. ..." Read the entire article: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/more-fathers-getting-custody-in-divorce/ By DailyMail - UK 11/13/2009 "A woman who made eight separate false claims of rape or sexual assault has been spared jail. Gemma Gregory, 28, accused seven different men over a six-year period. Former boyfriends were subjected to police questioning and DNA testing to clear their names." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493352/Woman-falsely-cried-rape-EIGHT-times-spared-jail.html By Politics Daily 11/13/2009 "Two viral videos of girl-on-girl and woman-on-woman violence grabbed the world by the throat this week and raised the question: Are American females becoming more violent?" Read the entire article: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/13/are-women-becoming-more-violent/
By Cathy Young -- Forbes 11/19/2009 "Feminism should be about equality--for males too." Read the entire article: http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/19/mens-rights-feminism-equality-violence-opinions-contributors-cathy-young.html By ScienceDaily.com 11/4/2009 "According to research from the University of Gothenburg, a preschooler's gender determines how he or she is treated and responded to in play and learning activities, and when the children's possibilities become expanded, it is usually a result of the children's and not the teachers' initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103102355.htm By Wall Street Journal 11/16/2009 "-- Researchers said men at age 40 in the U.S. have a one-in-eight chance of suffering sudden cardiac death over the rest of their lives, a stark indication of the toll cardiovascular disease exacts on society." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125833149978449651-lMyQjAxMDI5NTE4NjMxMzYxWj.html By Medline Plus 11/11/2009 "When it comes to teaching healthy behaviors, boys' high school team sports might be doing more harm than thought. New research suggests that for teenage boys, participation in team sports may encourage unruly behavior such as fighting and binge drinking." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_91741.html By ScienceDaily.com 11/12/2009 "There is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our society. The study was recently published by the journal of Sex Roles." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091112151434.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/3/2009 "The gender difference between men and women is a lot smaller than we've been led to believe when it comes to heart attack symptoms, according to a new study presented to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091025091140.htm By NorthernStar 11/10/2009 "The media may be the root of violence against men who participate in feminine activities, said Diana Swanson, acting director of Women’s Studies, in a lecture Monday night." Read the entire article: http://www.northernstar.info/article/9060/ By SeattlePi 11/11/2009 "Police here have arrested a woman for allegedly raping her daughter's 14-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/412104_bellevue11.html By K-State Collegian 11/9/2009 "...According to the Department of Labor statistics, over the past couple years, women’s wages rose 3.2 percent and men’s only rose 2 percent, both with inflation. In the median quarterly earning in the third quarter of 2009, minority women earned more than men; black women earned a 7.3-percent increase, Hispanic women earned a 5.5-percent increase and Asian women had a 1.8-percent increase. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/news/women-s-wages-increasing-more-than-men-s-1.2057862#5 By San Francisco Chronicle 11/10/2009 "A San Francisco woman has been arrested in what police described as the domestic-violence slaying of a 42-year-old man bludgeoned to death in a Sixth Street hotel, authorities said Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/10/BAE21AHH11.DTL By Lufkin Daily News - Texas 11/8/2009 "Dear Jeff: My son has been divorced for three years now and has three children in his custody. The mother is supposed to pay child support but has been in hiding all this time." Read the entire article: http://www.lufkindailynews.com/hp/content/business/stories/2009/11/08/ask_the_lawyer.html By 4029TV.com - Arkansas 11/5/2009 "They have failed to pay child support for years. Now, the Washington County Sheriff's Office has put the faces of “deadbeat moms and dads” on its Web site, and it's getting a lot of attention." Read the entire article: http://www.4029tv.com/news/21535509/detail.html By Laurie Tarkan -- New York Times 11/2/2009 "...As much as mothers want their partners to be involved with their children, experts say they often unintentionally discourage men from doing so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03dads.html?ex=1272949200&en=8822595cdac6b783&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=HL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M122t-ROS-1109-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click By Gordon E. Finley Ph.D. (Letter to the Editor) New York Times 11/9/2009 "...Fathers indeed are different from mothers, and in no way deficient just because they are different. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/10lett-ALLINTHEFAMI_LETTERS.html?ref=science By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 11/7/2009 "Yesterday, I noticed in my Google alerts the latest of a long line of hateful screeds directed at anyone who dares challenge the validity and/or usefulness of the Violence Against Women Act. In it, I found the usual litany of attack phrases about bullying and stupidity, not to mention the veiled accusations of criminal activity." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m11d7-What-is-the-Violence-Against-Women-Act-about By HeraldTribune.com 11/6/2009 "...Bell, first elected in 2000, later told an investigative panel it appeared to him the woman was the primary aggressor, and that the deputy exhibited gender bias by arresting the ex-husband, disciplinary records show. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091106/ARTICLE/911069999/2416?Title=F By Kathryn Joyce -- Double X 11/5/2009 "...RADAR’s rhetoric may seem overblown, but lately the group and its many partners have been racking up very real accomplishments. In 2008, the organization claimed to have blocked passage of four federal domestic-violence bills, among them an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to international scope and a grant to support lawyers in pro bono domestic-violence work. Members of this coalition have gotten themselves onto drafting committees for VAWA’s 2011 reauthorization. Local groups in West Virginia and California have also had important successes, criminalizing false claims of domestic violence in custody cases, and winning rulings that women-only shelters are discriminatory. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.doublex.com/print/9316
By USA Today 11/5/2009 "...An executive with Best Buy claims a United Airlines gate agent refused to allow him to take a first-class seat because he was wearing a track suit, reports Fox 5 News of Washington. ..." Read the entire article: http://content.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=620001025.blog&poe=HFMostPopular By Drew Zahn -- WorldNetDaily 11/3/2009 "A college professor in Georgia is whirling in confusion right now, reprimanded and apparently threatened with termination without any specific charges, hearings or evidence of wrongdoing -- only the school administration's allegation that he "offended" someone." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114935
By CNN.com 11/2/2009 "...Powell: You tell them that without that effort, all of our achievements over the last 50 or 60 years are being put at risk. The statistics are frightening. Fifty percent of our African-American youngsters are not graduating from high school. And of that 50 percent, a higher percentage of boys are not graduating than girls. And when they get out of high school, if we can get them into the college, you will find six girls in college for every three or four boys who are in college. And those six girls will graduate at a higher rate than the three or four boys. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/02/black.men.colin.powell/index.html By Marisa Trevino/Commentary -- USA Today 10/23/2009 "...To be fair, these reports have not fallen on deaf ears. Latinas have created organizations to change those outcomes, and their efforts are beginning to pay off. But, as with other education-centric debates, the follow-up question is: What about the boys?..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/column-while-latinas-gain-latino-boys-languish.html?loc=interstitialskip By ScienceDaily.com 11/2/2009 "...Facial width-to-height ratio (WHR) is determined by measuring the distance between the right and left cheeks and the distance from the upper lip to the mid-brow. During childhood, boys and girls have similar facial structures, but during puberty, males develop a greater WHR than females. Previous research has suggested that males with a larger WHR act more aggressively than those with a smaller WHR. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091031002319.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/26/2009 "Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163354.htm By Catholic Online - Ohio 11/1/2009 "...Ray Lautenschlager, President of Parents and Children for Equality, says she is correct. He has been following the Macfarlane case for years. "Parents who lose custody are being ordered to pay to support their children twice: first in their home where when they spend time with the children, and then in the other parent's home."..." Read the entire article: http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=8027 By Roland Warren -- Washington Times – District of Columbia 11/1/2009 "I recently had an opportunity to screen the new Miramax movie, "The Boys Are Back," which takes an honest look at the impact a father's presence and absence has on his children." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/01/warren-movie-examines-need-father/ By David Lazenby News Editor -- Daily Mountain Eagle 10/23/2009 "If there is one thing I believe in wholeheartedly it’s the ideal that “All men are created equal” — or at least should be treated as such in principal." Read the entire article: http://www.mountaineagle.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=800FA7ED-19B9-E2F5-468814295A1C3538 By The Auburn Plainsman - Alabama 10/30/2009 "Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled parents whose parental rights have been terminated are still required to pay child support, setting a legal precedent within the state. The Supreme Court overturned a state appeals court decision that stated a parent who lost rights to a child was no longer required to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://www.theplainsman.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Our+View-+Ruling+on+Child+Support+Creates+Questions-+Worry%20&id=4200351&instance=home_news_lead_story By Telegraph.co.uk 10/28/2009 "Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6453268/Council-bans-parents-from-play-areas.html By CNN.com 10/29/2009 "Distraught residents searched for days for Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff's Department received a tip that led them to the alleged killer. It didn't lead them to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender -- avenues police had originally considered because of Olten's age. Instead, it led them to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Olten." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/missouri.olten.murder/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Simon Perry -- People.com 10/25/2009 "British singer Leona Lewis has reacted with dismay to some of the media chatter about the fact that she is still dating the same boyfriend she had before she found fame." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20315285,00.html By DNA 10/27/2009 "Three years since the Protection of women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act was enforced, the Indian Family Foundation (IFF), comprising husbands allegedly victimised by the misuse of the law, demanded a law to protect them from abusive wives." Read the entire article: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_there-is-a-welfare-ministry-for-women-why-not-one-for-men_1303548 By Naples Daily News 10/28/2009 "...“She is a deadbeat mom and owes me close to $15,000 in child support,” Ballard said of the alleged victim, adding that he has custody of their 6-year-old daughter. Ballard said Amy Nicole Engel, 36, also known as Amy Brownlow, is the mother of his child and made up the kidnapping story. Court records show he obtained a domestic violence restraining order against her and she was sentenced to probation after violating it, and spent time in jail here. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/oct/28/federal-kidnapping-charges-dropped-against-estates/ By USA Today 10/25/2009 "Juvenile authorities said Saturday that a 15-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a 9-year-old central Missouri girl found in the woods two days after she went missing." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-24-Missouri_N.htm?csp=34 By FoxNews.com 10/26/2009 "A 5-year-old Romanian boy has made the Guinness Book of Records after performing an incredible physical stunt." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569585,00.html?test=latestnews By Stuart Taylor -- National Journal Magazine 10/24/2009 "Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor's degrees, 61 percent of all master's degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and social sciences, in-cluding two-thirds of new psychology doctorates." Read the entire article: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/openingargument.php By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 10/22/2009 "In a story that appeared this morning, the Shreveport Times reported on a citywide sweep to clear about 75 warrants, which netted 19 arrests. What is notable about this story is that the first person to be mentioned was a woman." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Shreveport-Times-recognizes-domestic-violence-is-not-a-gender-issue By YahooNews 10/21/2009 "Peter Criss, founding member of rock band KISS, knows that many of his male fans are macho, so he is making the rounds to tell them even tough rocker guys like him can suffer from a disease usually associated with women -- breast cancer." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091022/people_nm/us_petercriss_3 By YahooFinance.com 10/21/2009 "The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107985/womens-wages-outpaced-mens-during-recession?mod=career-salary_negotiation By ScienceDaily.com 10/21/2009 "Women are better than men at distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, according to a new study published in the online version of the journal Neuropsychologia. As part of the investigation, Olivier Collignon and a team from the Université de Montréal Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et cognition (CERNEC) demonstrated that women are better than men at processing auditory, visual and audiovisual emotions." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091021125133.htm# By Trudy W. Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 10/15/2009 "As the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act arrived last month, supporters from the president and vice-president, to people in charge of small, local programs lauded the Violence Against Women Act as something special – as if it was a real solution that was vitally necessary." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d15-15-years-of-the-Violence-Against-Women-Act-its-tragic-consequences
By WUSA9.com 10/14/2009 "...Thomas Gerrow, President of San Miguel, says the couple came here because they were interested to see a program that focuses on Latino children. "Latino males are the lowest graduation rate in the country. And our success so far have been superb in order to overcome those issues," Gerrow said." Read the entire article: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92386&provider=top By ScienceDaily.com 10/12/2009 "Teenage boys in Sweden take less responsibility than girls for preventing the spread of chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091012135504.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/10/2009 "Persistent infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus, is known to be a cause of cervical cancer. Current guidelines prioritize HPV vaccination of pre-adolescent girls, which has been shown to be cost-effective in previous studies, but the value of vaccinating boys in the United States has been unclear." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008192735.htm By Rep. Michael R. Turner -- Washington Times 10/8/2009 "America's men and women in uniform place themselves in harm's way every day without regard for their own safety. They fight for their country and for their families. Given their measure of dedication to our defense, it's unacceptable that these same soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guard members and reservists would be forced to forfeit their right of child-custody protections just because they are deployed for months or years far from home." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/08/ensuring-child-custody-protection/ By WVGazette.com 10/8/2009 "A Kanawha County Circuit judge has voided West Virginia's regulations for domestic violence programs, saying they discriminate by denying abused men access to publicly funded shelters and women abusers access to treatment." Read the entire article: http://wvgazette.com/ap/ApTopStories/200910080468 By ScienceDaily.com 10/2/2009 "Racial segregation in the schools is fueling the learning disparity between young black and white children, while out-of-school factors are more important to the growth of social class gaps, according to a study by Emory University sociologist Dennis Condron." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002124741.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/5/2009 "The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Florida." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005181723.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/6/2009 "...In 2002, 371,000 boys and 289,000 girls worldwide died of injury, with more than 180,000 – mostly pedestrians – killed by traffic. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005123041.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "Fewer than half of men and women in Ontario who may be suffering from depression see a doctor to treat their potentially debilitating condition, according to a new women's health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). What's more, many hospitalized for severe depression fail to see a doctor for follow-up care within 30 days of being discharged, and many head to hospital emergency departments for care." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930084606.htm By CNN.com 10/5/2009 "...Boys were four times as likely as girls to have ASD, and non-Hispanic black and multiracial children were less likely than non-Hispanic white children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/autism.study/index.html By Bill Mears -- CNN Supreme Court Producer "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a female death row inmate who said fetal alcohol syndrome should have been considered by the state court that reviewed her sentence." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/05/scotus.female.death.row/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Amanda MacMillan -- CNN Health 10/5/2009 "...Boys were at a higher risk of Internet addiction than girls, and those who used the Internet for more than 20 hours a week, every day, or for online gaming, were at higher risk as well. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/depression.adhd.internet.addiction/index.html By Mark Tutton -- For CNN 10/7/2009 "...Last week a 51-year old father of two jumped to his death from a bridge. He was reported to have left a letter blaming his death on the "atmosphere" at work, according to media reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/06/work.death/index.html?iref=werecommend
By CNN 10/6/2009 "The flag-draped coffins of five U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan arrived Tuesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the military said. The bodies include Sgt. Joshua J. Kirk of South Portland, Maine; Spc. Michael P. Scusa of Villas, New Jersey; Spc. Stephen L. Mace of Lovettsville, Virginia; Spc. Christopher T. Griffin of Kincheloe, Michigan; and Pfc. Kevin C. Thomson of Reno, Nevada, according to the Air Force mortuary affairs office." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/us.afghanistan.troops/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Elizabeth Landau -- CNN 10/7/2009 "...A study of more than 5,000 people in the United States aged 20 to 69 found that males were three times as likely to have noise-related hearing loss as women. The research was recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery in San Diego, California. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/07/hearing.loss.noise/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
By Trudy Schuett -- Examiner.com 10/7/2009 "A West Virginia court has found that the fundamental beliefs of the West Virginia Coaliton Against Domestic Violence (which the court refers to as a "private trade association") are "gender-biased," and this violates the terms of the state's Domestic Violence Act. The court also says: "Every person, regardless of gender, enjoys a statutory right to participation in and receipt of domestic violence services offered by facilities licensed and funded in whole or in part by the state of West Virginia.".." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d7-WV-court-says-states-Coalition-Against-Domestic-Violence-is-biased-in-violation-of-law By CNN 10/7/2009 "The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/07/letterman.now/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By Carrie Johnson -- Washington Post 9/11/2009 "Reports of sexual misconduct by prison staff members with federal inmates doubled over the past eight years, and government watchdogs called Thursday for more training and sensitivity to combat the growing problem." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/10/AR2009091004135.html
By YahooNews 10/4/2009 "A week ago, Maria Gurrolla was celebrating the birth of her fourth child. A blue yard sign announced: "IT'S A BOY!" She visited a local welfare office that helps low-income mothers. Then her 4-day-old son was abducted by an attacker who posed as an immigration worker, then stabbed her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_re_us/us_tenn_newborn_snatched By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "A New York mother is fighting back against her school district after administrators and officials told her she and her son didn't have the right to bike to school together — and that his safety, even beyond school walls, was out of her hands." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559460,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5 By FoxNews 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a mother and her adult son were arrested for allegedly hauling $1 million in cocaine after Arkansas State Police pulled over their pickup for weaving on Interstate 40." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559582,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001081207.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/27/2009 "When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality rate is more than twice that of adolescents." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090925101959.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/29/2009 " In older age groups, repeated suicide attempts constitute an increased risk for completed suicide in depressed women, while severe attempts constitute an increased risk for depressed men. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry studied suicide attempts in 100 patients who committed suicide and in an age- and sex-matched control group, investigating the effects of age on suicidal behaviour, as a risk factor for accomplished suicide." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090928191808.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/23/2009 "Even though the incidence of atrial fibrillation is higher in men than women, a review of past studies and medical literature completed by cardiac experts at Rush University Medical Center shows that women are more likely than men to experience symptomatic attacks, a higher frequency of recurrences, and significantly higher heart rates during atrial fibrillation, which increases the risk of stroke." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922123929.htm By FoxNews 9/30/2009 "Kevin Jennings was teaching high school in 1988 when a gay student confessed an involvement with an older man. Rather than reporting it, he told the boy, "I hope you knew to use a condom."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/30/obamas-safe-schools-czar-admits-bad-handling-teen-sex-case/?test=latestnews By Chicago Tribune 9/29/2009 "Two years ago, something horrible happened to Tangela Key's two sons. Her then 13-year-old son -- who she ordered to baby sit his three siblings -- beat her 8-year-old son to death because he had eaten a dessert he wasn't supposed to and picked at a scab until it bled." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/orl-bk-mother-killer-092909,0,3517081.story By Yahoo News 9/30/3009 "We've long been told that women are more selective when it comes to the men they choose to date." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090930/sc_livescience/studyquestionswhetherwomenaremoreselectiveatdating By The Washington Times 9/28/2009 "A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/?feat=home_top5_read By Washington Times 9/29/2009 "...And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A "safe schools czar" who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime?..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/sex-scandal-double-standard/ By ScienceDaily.com 9/24/2009 "The current generation of college students and teachers need to be as culturally fluent with people from different cultures as they are with their own, a soft skill that has become an essential part of life in the 21st century, a University of Illinois expert on teacher education says." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924123312.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/24/2009 "A new study finds that 75% of the cases of paediatric bipolar disorder are diagnosed late – up to 18 months – due to the symptoms manifesting themselves in a different manner depending on whether the patient is a child or adult. Moreover, 25% of sufferers have a delay in their medical diagnoses of up to three years and four months, according to a study by the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the University Hospital of Navarra, in collaboration with the Paediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University (Boston, United States)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922100043.htm By CNN.com 9/25/2009 "Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/new.york.falsely.accused/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Thom Patterson -- CNN 9/25/2009 "...She points to the Baghdad confrontation as a major contributor to her struggles with drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. She says she's one step away from living on the street. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/25/homeless.veterans/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By YahooNews 9/25/2009 "Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090925/od_nm/us_chiscolm By Farsley Today – United Kingdom 9/25/2009 "After a battle with the Child Support Agency, Armley's Tony Nelson couldn't believe his eyes when he received a letter telling him he was entitled to a refund." Read the entire article: http://www.farsleytoday.co.uk/4270/Armley-man-gets-Child-Support.5680518.jp By The Chattanoogan Opinion - Tennessee 9/28/2009 "I just learned one of my young male neighbors, presently unemployed, was recently jailed and is now serving 11/29 for non-payment of child-support. I guess I'm one of the few ones who scratch my head and could never understand the benefits to the child or children and society as a whole for locking someone up for failure to pay child-support, especially if they're not in a position to pay due to job loss." Read the entire article: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_159775.asp By AMY SULLIVAN / WASHINGTON -- Time 9/25/2009 "...Birth rates in the U.S. fell 2% in 2008, the biggest drop in nearly four decades, and that trend is expected to continue. A new study out Sept. 23 from the Guttmacher Institute suggests that the timing is not a coincidence; the recession may be to blame, as women factor economic anxieties into their decision about having children. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090925/us_time/08599192594400 By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 9/24/2009 "...There's a good bit to chew on in the case of In the matter of Baby Boy M., A Minor. As its name suggests, this is an adoption case. Like the last adoption case out of Utah that I wrote about a few weeks ago, the facts in this case tell a lot about the depths to which some mothers will descend to keep a father from his child. Adoption agencies facilitate the mother's behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/09/24/texas-single-dad-stops-adoption-may-get-custody-of-his-son/
By Yahoo News 9/7/2009 "..."More experienced people are getting hired, and they're downgrading their skills to get the job," Wells said. "I feel like I'm competing with older workers, not college graduates. It wears on your confidence."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stress_map_awkward_ages
Praxis International encourages domestic violence, when properly appliedThursday, 24 September 2009
By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 9/24/2009 "...I wouldn't have known anything about this org but for an e-mail I got from Marc Angelucci, of NCFM. The e-mail was about the outrage felt by participants at the recent Washington State Domestic Violence Coalition (WSDVC) annual conference, where Amanda McCormick, (left) an employee of Praxis said with a grin, "I think I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten," during her keynote address. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Praxis-International-encourages-domestic-violence-when-properly-applied By Orlando Sentinel - Florida 9/21/2009 "...Question: I pay child support for two girls, ages 9 and 7, but my ex-wife refuses to allow me to claim any one of them as my dependent. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/orl-livask-lawyer-child-support-092092109sep21,0,4051759.column By GroundReport - USA 9/21/2009 "... In the case of parental responsibilities however, these roles while changing have not kept up with the times in terms of gender bias toward men's rights in the areas of child custody, more specifically as applied to a Mother paying her fair share of child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Where-Is-The-Outrage-For-Deadbeat-Mothers/2908017 By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "...Divorce is as common in the Florida Keys as fresh grouper and cold beer. Census statistics released this week show that Monroe County — which includes the cluster of 1,700 islands floating off South Florida — has the second-highest proportion of divorced residents. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_go_ot/us_divorce_american_style By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "A census worker found hanged from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest met his end in a corner of Appalachia with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields — and a reputation for mistrusting government that dates back to the days of moonshiners and "revenuers."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged By E-Online 9/24/2009 "The Gossip Girl mom has been granted a temporary restraining order against the father of her two children, Daniel Giersch, after, among other things, accusing him of intimidating and threatening her nanny, being entirely unflexible with his scheduled custody visits and stressing her out so much she's having a hard time breastfeeding." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b146019_kelly_rutherford_restrains_ex_baiting.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By Christine Kellar Annapolis Capital - Maryland 9/22/2009 "Assistant Principal Sara Pickens looked out across the packed cafeteria at Nantucket Elementary School in Crofton. "I've worked in education for the past 15 years, and I've never seen so many men in a school building," she said. Roughly 130 fathers of Nantucket students, accompanied by their children, turned out on the evening of Sept. 16 for the pizza party kick-off of "WATCH D.O.G.S." (Dads of Great Students) volunteer program at the school." Read the entire article: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/ccr/2009/09/22-36/Around-Crofton-Nantucket-Elementary-in-Crofton-invites-dads-to-volunteer.html By Wang Hongyi China Daily - China 9/23/2009 "A leading Beijing paternity testing center says up to 30 percent of tested men were not the biological fathers of their children." Read the entire article: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/metro/2009-09/23/content_8723991.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "About 10% of all couples hoping for a baby have fertility problems. Environmentalists say pollution is to blame and psychiatrists point to our stressful lifestyles, but evolutionary biologist Dr. Oren Hasson of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology offers a different take. The reproductive organs of men and women are currently involved in an evolutionary arms race, he reports in a new study. And the fight isn't over yet." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125137.htm By Dennis Cauchon -- USA TODAY 9/18/2009 "The incomes of the young and middle-aged — especially men — have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were even in the 1970s, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-09-17-young-people_N.htm?csp=34 By FoxNews.com 9/10/2009 "Federal health advisers say Merck's vaccine Gardasil, which already is used to prevent cervical cancer in women, should also be approved to stop genital warts in men." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548822,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By KTLA 9/14/2009 "A 35-year old mother is accused of using the internet to track down the boy she gave up for adoption and then raping him." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-rape,0,3106598.story By Times Online 9/14/2009 "The divorce laws are unfair to men and multimillion-pound awards are degrading to women, an expert in family law believes. Baroness Deech is calling for an end to the idea that women deserve half of their husbands’ wealth on divorce." Read the entire article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6832973.ece By Trinidad & Tobago Guardian 9/8/2009 "America has become a nation where fatherhood is fast becoming unnecessary and irrelevant in many homes and communities today. Single motherhood and divorced women are not only more celebrated in the media than married women, but fathers and husbands are disregarded even when they are present in the hospital when their child is being born or for the child’s healthcare. " Read the entire article: http://guardian.co.tt/commentary/letters/2009/09/08/plea-dads-get-involved By E-Online 9/10/9 "...Every year in America, hundreds of thousands of men divorce. Sure, Gosselin's more famous than most. Certainly, he's more infamous than most. But at the end of the Vegas pool party day, he's just a guy. Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b143326_jon_gosselin_misunderstood.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By ScienceDaily.com 9/2/2009 "A third of the previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, associated with prostate cancer in men of European or African ancestry were also associated with prostate cancer in a Japanese population, according to a new study published online September 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090902161114.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/5/2009 "Men and women whose thighs are less than 60cm in circumference have a higher risk of premature death and heart disease, according to research published on the British Medical Journal website. The study also concluded that individuals whose thighs are wider than 60cm have no added protective effect." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904071657.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/9/2009 " Parenthood is pushing mothers and fathers in opposite directions on political issues associated with social welfare, from health care to education, according to new research from North Carolina State University." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908124628.htm By Pete Billing M.D. -- Mens News Daily 9/4/2009 "...Women have always known for sure that the children they raise are their own; maternity never needs to be doubted, even in the most primitive of societies. Paternity, on the other hand, has always been something that men have doubted, consciously or unconsciously. In the absence of reliable scientific testing, how is a man to know for sure whether he is really the father of a certain child. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/09/04/dna-test-all-newborns/ By Minnesota Lawyer - Minnesota 9/3/2009 "...Enter the Family Law Appellate Mediation Pilot Project, instituted by the Court of Appeals a year ago. The case was immediately diverted into the program, and a trained mediator was assigned to the case. The case shortly thereafter settled, with the parties mutually agreeing to a substantially reduced back-support payment." Read the entire article: http://www.minnlawyer.com/article.cfm/2009/09/07/Appellate-family-law-mediation-converting-the-skeptics By David Kocieniewski -- New York Times 8/31/2009 "During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could think of to ease her longing for the year-old daughter she had left back home." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/nyregion/01guard.html?_r=1 By Brandi Fowler and Breanne L. Heldman -- E Online 9/7/2009 "..."I was verbally abused," the 32-year-old accuses. "I was beaten down. She separated me from my family. She used to hold the kids over my head and say, 'Don't spend time with your mom, spend time with your kids.' Why can't I spend time with my mom and kids together?"..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/index.jsp?author=brandi+fowler+and+breanne+l.+heldman Then there was the name calling and put-downs... By WMTW.com 9/8/2009 "The number of women being arrested for domestic assault is on the rise in Maine. The Department of Public Safety said 1,067 women were charged with assaulting men in 2008. That's a 38 percent increase from the 770 women charged five years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.wmtw.com/news/20793445/detail.html By The Age - Australia 9/6/2009 "THE cluster of fathers gathered around a barbecue at midday draws a few odd looks in a playground full of mothers and small children. But these stay-at-home dads are used to that." Read the entire article: http://www.theage.com.au/national/dads-still-a-rare-sight-at-playgroup-20090905-fc54.html By FoxNews.com 9/3/2009 "A lawsuit in California that was filed last month by angry parents who object to a gay-friendly curriculum they say is being foisted on kindergartners could well become a test case for schools around the country." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546280,00.html?test=latestnews By Ally Fogg -- The Guardian UK 9/6/2009 "The debate on domestic violence (DV) statistics took a fascinating turn last week. Recent years have seen numerous surveys which suggest that incidents involving male victims and female perpetrators are more common than had previously been assumed. Men's charities have long argued that the official crime figures significantly under-represent the problem, because so few men report abuse to the authorities, and those that do are likely to be disbelieved, often to the extent of being arrested themselves when police arrive." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/06/domestic-violence-police-male-victims By ScienceDaily.com 9/3/2009 " High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries – injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of sport participation among a nationally representative sample of high school athletes. Severe injuries accounted for 15 percent of all high school sport-related injuries." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090902195251.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/4/2009 "Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904165256.htm By People.com 9/5/2009 "While Kim Kardashian plans sister Kourtney's baby shower, the Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami star's boyfriend, Scott Disick, had his own daddy-to-be celebration of sorts this week in Miami during an evening of dining and clubbing Kourtney jokingly dubs a "man-shower." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20302827,00.html By USA Today 9/4/2009 "...Reeves said the family intends to get emotional help for the girl, who was tackled and disarmed by 18-year-old classmate Kaleb Eulls. But he said the girl does not belong in jail. "She doesn't need to be in jail for the rest of her life," he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-04-yazoo-mississippi_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By People.com "..."I took a lot of abuse from her. I was put down," Jon Gosselin tells ABC's Chris Cuomo in an interview set to air next week. "She'll call me, almost like a lame fish. Like I wasn't going anywhere."... Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20301934,00.html By WRDW-TV – Georgia/South Carolina 8/27/2009 "The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is looking for ten "Dead-Beat Moms." Each of them owes more than $25,000 in child support and is wanted by the Family Court." Read the entire article: http://www.wrdw.com/crimeteam12/headlines/55248602.html By CNN.com 8/25/2009 "I've had a bumpy ride as a single gal and have dated many guys who weren't worth my time. But that doesn't mean a girl can't be a dud, too! Case in point? That tragic and recently cancelled VH1 show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a girl who was looking for a rich man to pay the bills" Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/08/25/tf.13.signs.dating.loser/index.html By Huffington Post 8/27/2009 "...When asked what Laffoon does for a living, the actress said, "He goes out to the mailbox and he opens up the little mailbox door and goes, 'Oh! I got a check from Anne! Oh! I got a check from Anne! Yay!'"..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/anne-heche-calls-ex-a-laz_n_270186.html By ScienceDaily 8/26/2009 "Women hedge, issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, language features that can suggest uncertainty, lack of confidence and low status. But men do the same, according to new research from the University of California, Davis." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825090749.htm By ScienceDaily 8/23/2009 "Despite mounting public health concerns about obesity and persistent social pressures dictating that slim is beautiful, young women in their '20s consistently exercise less than young men." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821135022.htm By ScienceDaily 8/26/2009 "Women may have a slightly higher risk of death than men in the 30 days following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS; such as heart attack or unstable angina), but this difference appears attributable to factors such as severity and type of ACS, clinical differences and angiographic severity according to a study in the August 26 issue of JAMA." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825163724.htm By FoxNews.com 8/21/2009 "Financial fears and the recession are contributing to the rise in the number of men suffering from anorexia." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541340,00.html By Aiken Standard (subscription) – South Carolina 8/26/2009 "The Aiken County Sheriff's Office hasn't reserved the term "deadbeat" for just dads - the agency's most recent wanted suspects are mothers who are at least $25,000 behind in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0827DeadbeatMoms Cheating Husband Admits Infidelity in Sign on Display Outside Virginia MallThursday, 27 August 2009
By Fox News.com 8/27/2009 "A cheating husband is trying to make amends by publicly admitting his indiscretions — in a sign he's toting outside a busy Virginia shopping center." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543604,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By CNN.com 8/21/2009 "A Vietnam veteran and Bronze Star recipient who volunteered to return to the Army and serve in Afghanistan became the oldest U.S. service member to die in combat there, the U.S. military announced Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/afghanistan.oldest.death/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Chicago Tribune 8/19/2009 "...There were the usual jokes from friends about his low pay and cushy workday. There were the awkward moments with women who sometimes belittled his profession. There was the occasional whisper or suspicious glance from parents who questioned why a young man would choose to spend so much time with children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-male-teachers-19-aug19,0,3771337.story By ScienceDaily.com 7/31/2009 "Striking differences in the risk factors for developing heart failure (HF) and patient prognosis exist between men and women. Men and women may also respond differently to treatment, raising concerns about whether current practices provide the best care and reinforcing the urgency for sex-specific clinical trials for HF, according to a review article published in the August 4, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191254.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "Middle-aged men who strongly idealize masculinity are almost 50 percent less likely than other men to seek preventative healthcare services, according to a study—the first population-based analysis of men's masculinity beliefs and preventative healthcare compliance—to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810174209.htm#
By ScienceDaily.com 8/9/2009 "While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024829.htm By Yahoo Sports 8/20/2009 "...Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender. Her father, grandmother and cousin dismissed speculation she is not a woman. ..." Read the entire article: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-worlds-gendertest&prov=ap&type=lgns By ScienceDaily.com 8/12/2009 "When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations. Fathers, on the other hand, don't seem to use their moms as parenting role models, at least for some practices." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024827.htm By CNN.com 8/19/2009 "Arrests for women driving under the influence jumped by nearly 30 percent during the decade ending in 2007, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Transportation Department." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/19/women.drunken.driving/index.html By FoxNews.com 8/6/2009 "A Malaysian teacher forced a student to smoke 42 cigarettes in two hours as punishment after finding the boy had a cigarette and lighter, a news report said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537623,00.html By Fred Silberberg -- Huffington Post 8/10/2009 "A while back I was in court with my female client defending a request by her husband that she be ordered to pay him spousal support. My client was irate over the fact that her husband would even think to make such a request, notwithstanding the fact that her net worth and earnings significantly outgrossed his. As we argued the case to the judge, my client kept telling me that this was ridiculous, a man should not be seeking spousal support from a woman." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-silberberg/whats-good-for-the-goose_b_254808.html By Tampa Tribune - Florida 8/12/2009 "...Jessica Horrigan is a fugitive for failing to make child support payments. Her grandmother told a reporter she'll try to track her down and make it right. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/12/121628/60-moms-listed-pasco-sheriffs-new-deadbeats-site/news-breaking/ By Philip Bowring -- Op-Ed New York Times 8/12/2009 "Shanghai has plenty of achievements to boast about but one record suggests a bleaker future — the world’s lowest fertility rate, with 0.7 births per woman of child-bearing age." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08iht-edbowring.html?_r=2 By Mark Fass --The National Law Journal – New York 8/14/2009 "A woman who accepted title to the family home as prepayment for 15 years of child support cannot seek arrears simply because the house sold for only two-thirds of the value estimated at the time of the divorce, a Long Island judge has held." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433039822&Housing_Bust_Ruled_No_Cause_to_Upset_Child_Support_Pact By CNN.com 8/13/2009 "A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/florida.tobacco.award/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By ScienceBlog.com USA 8/12/2009 "Mothers and fathers play different roles and make different contributions to a child's upbringing, but a father's influence upon a child's academic success later in life is felt the most when he's involved from the very beginning, says a University of Illinois expert in early childhood education." Read the entire article: http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/parental-influences-differ-determing-childs-later-academic-success-23997.html By Yahoo News 8/12/2009 "Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court last month." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_jailed_for_yawning By MSNBC.com 8/11/2009 "...Clinton heard from several residents of the camp that they are suffering from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhea, and that the women and young boys and girls are susceptible to rape mainly when they leave the camp to go into the forest to gather wood for cooking. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32370992/ns/world_news-africa/ By The Local 8/7/2009 "A 32-year-old woman has been found guilty of the rape of another woman by the Gothenburg District Court." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/21172/20090807/ By Herald Tribune 8/10/2009 "A 39-year-old Bradenton man was arrested Saturday night on charges of domestic battery after a dispute that began when he was awakened by his live-in girlfriend talking in her sleep, a police report states." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/BREAKING/908109972/0/SPORTS By John Vause -- CNN 8/10/2009 "...Huidong believes Ruicong was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son looking for a male heir. Males come with a premium price tag in China. During a videotaped confession, a woman caught trafficking children two years ago told police that boys can sell for up to $1,200, girls for just more than $200. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/china.stolen.children/index.html
By Miami Herald 8/6/2009 "Thinking her husband was dead, a 26-year-old newlywed pulled up to her Boynton Beach town home Wednesday morning in apparent panic. She surveyed the crime scene tape and swarming police officers and began to sob hysterically. A good act, police called it. Investigators say she was the one planning his death -- and they were a step ahead." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1173481.html By Yahoo News 8/7/2009 "It seemed too horrendous even to imagine. But the case of the mother who caused a deadly wrong-way crash while drunk and stoned is part of a disturbing trend: Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising rapidly while falling among men." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash_women_drinkers By Carey Roberts -- RenewAmerica.com 8/3/2009 "In a reprise of Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comments, the New York Times has settled the age-old debate about who makes better office managers. "No Doubts: Women are Better Managers" announces the July 26 headline." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/090803 By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A special education teacher saw signs that something was wrong with her 10-year-old student. ..." "..."I was concerned, but I didn't have the proof," Lori Nohner-Johnson, a special education teacher in the Hinckley-Finlayson Elementary School who taught Lakesha for three years, said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536960,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.315866:b26949366:z0 By CNN.com 8/5/2009 "Jim Nicholson could've just handed over the cash. Instead, he gave the would-be robber a run for his money -- and paid for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html By Robert Preidt -- Medline Plus 8/4/2009 "Screening for domestic violence in doctors' offices, clinics and hospitals does little to reduce subsequent incidents of violence, Canadian researchers have found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_87727.html By Joe Schwartz -- The Independent Weekly – North Carolina 8/4/2009 "Carrboro mayoral candidate Amanda Ashley owes more than $20,000 in unpaid child support and has served jail time because of her failure to pay, according to Orange County court documents." Read the entire article: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A398980 By Jeffrey Gettleman -- New York Times 8/4/2009 "It was around 11 p.m. when armed men burst into Kazungu Ziwa’s hut, put a machete to his throat and yanked down his pants. Mr. Ziwa is a tiny man, about four feet, six inches tall. He tried to fight back, but said he was quickly beaten down." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/africa/05congo.html?_r=1 The number of girls schools has dwindled in the state sector since the 1970s and has been dropping more recently among private schools, as more and more parents demand co-ed schools. Only 221,000 girls and 160,000 boys are now taught in state single sex secondaries out of a total school population of more than 3.5 million. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/18/secondary-schools-girls-gcse-results By Glenn Sacks, M.A. and Ned Holstein, M.D. -- MSN Lifestyle "Four Sacramento County Sheriff's cars pulled up in front of David Woods's house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: "Yeah, that's fine. Put your hands behind your back." David said, "No, wait, she stabbed me ... there's the knife. See the knife? See my neck wound? See?"..." Read the entire article: http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/bigger-picture/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20968901&page=0 By Pam Baker -- SanLuisObispo.com 7/30/2009 "...According to the Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey, nearly 900,000 men are victims of physical violence by a domestic partner. That roughly translates to a man being beaten every 38 seconds. The government counts both heterosexual and homosexual male victims of abuse in the study. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/family_relationships/story/799385.html By ScienceDaily.com 7/17/2009 "Teenagers yearn to fit in and be accepted by their friends. A new study suggests that girls and boys think differently about being judged by their peers as they move through adolescence. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715074920.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/4/2009 " A school-based program that integrates information about healthy relationships into the existing ninth-grade curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later, according to a report in the August issue ofArchives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The effects of the low-cost intervention appear stronger in boys." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803173123.htm By The News Tribune -- Tacoma WA - 7/24/2009 "Jennifer Rice, the former Tacoma teacher convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old student, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison Friday." Read the entire article: http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/07/24/tacoma_teacher_convicted_in_sex_crime_ca By The News Tribune 8/4/2009 "New Hampshire and a Massachusetts Eagle Scout who needed to be rescued from Mount Washington are negotiating the size of his fine, which the state initially set at $25,000. Scott Mason, of Halifax, Mass., spent three nights alone on the Northeast's highest mountain after spraining his ankle and veering off marked trails." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html
By Andy Dolan DailyMail - UK 8/3/2009 "Supporters of a women's refuge were 'shocked and stunned' to be told it is being closed - because it does not cater for men. By Colorado Daily.com 7/31/2009 "A few thousand men — and, for the first time, women, children and people of Messianic Jewish faith — gathered at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field for a Promise Keepers conference Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/jul/31/promise-keepers-conference-folsom-boulder-women/ By Adrienne T. Washington -- Washington Times 7/26/2009 "..."It's about time we had something for men," said Scott Williams, vice president of the Men's Health Network (MHN) and co-founder of Women Against Prostate Cancer (WAPC). "Blue makes sense for men and is a great rallying cry for men and their families. We're excited by the potential for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/26/true-blue-well-being/ By Trudy Schuett -- The Examiner 7/27/2009 "...The 2005 document put out by the NCADV with federal funding to suggest themes for Domestic Violence Awareness Month is entitled, Action for Social Change. For 111 pages, this PDF goes on about things like the language used to talk about the issues, finding new groups of victims to claim, and items such as graphic diagrams of the special ways handicapped and elderly women, even babies are victimized. There are sources cited that once again blame men and the “patriarchy” for the continuing oppression of women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Domestic-Violence-101-The-personal-vs-the-political By News-Leader.com - Missouri 7/29/2009 "There may not be a manual that tells you how to be a father, but the CoxHealth Women’s Center offers the next best thing - “Fatherhood: Basic Training,” according to a news release from the hospital." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20090729/BREAKING01/90729058/CoxHealth+offers+fatherhood+training+class By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 7/29/2009 "...These men from the Columbus, Ohio, area are the unusual new faces of joblessness in this groundbreaking recession: older men cut loose from employment at the peak of their earning power and work experience. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-07-29-oldermales_N.htm?csp=34 By Sergio Bichao -- My Central Jersey.com 7/27/2009 "The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University. In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere. That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl." Read the entire article: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090727/NEWS/90727002 By Delores Handy -- wbur.org 7/23/2009 "...Despite the growing number of women seeking help, there are still many victims in the shadows — male victims. Research shows women assault their partners nearly as often as men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/23/male-domestic-violence By Howard Kurtz -- Washington Post 7/25/2009 "...In a letter to the paper's editor, Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon accused Carol Rosenberg of "multiple incidents of abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature." Gordon, who deals primarily with the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, said in the letter that this was a "formal sexual harassment complaint" and asked the Herald for a "thorough investigation."..."
By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe Editorial 7/16/2009 "LYNN Rosenthal, a veteran of the battered women’s advocacy movement, was named to the new post of White House counsel on violence against women on June 26. On the same day, a conference opened in Los Angeles disputing the basic tenets of the movement Rosenthal represents - such as the view that domestic violence is overwhelmingly a male crime against women rooted in patriarchal power. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/07/16/battered_women___and_men/ By MSNBC.com 7/24/2009 "...Experts like Sharon Lamb, a professor of mental health at the graduate college of education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, said it’s all but inevitable that children will want to spend time wearing only their birthday suits, especially in certain situations. "Clothes can be uncomfortable," said Dr. Lamb, a co-author of the forthcoming book "Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons From Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes."..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31939730/ns/health-the_new_york_times/
-- Baltimore Sun 7/16/2009 "Police recently concluded that former Baltimore Ravens star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep by girlfriend Sahel Kazemi in a murder-suicide. Yet while there are more than 10,000 media entries on Google News for "Steve McNair," only a few of them mention the phrase "domestic violence."..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.mcnair16jul16,0,5844465.story
By ScienceDaily.com 7/8/2009 "An earlier study by Carita Håkansson, senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, Jönköping in Sweden, shows that meaning and balance in everyday life are predictors of health among women. However, the most important predictor of health among men is their ability to manage the demands of their working life." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090707094825.htm By ScienceDaily.com 6/29/2009 "...Men who had a mediocre relationship had a higher incidence of depression, anxiety, psychological and somatic stress reactions than men with worse or better relationships. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623090711.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/3/2009 "...A common stereotype about older people is that loneliness is typical for older women, rather than for older men. One problem with this stereotype is that feelings of loneliness are not particularly common among either men or women in the Nordic countries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090703065456.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/8/2009 "Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women and the second leading cause of cancer death when both sexes are combined." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713085600.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/13/2009 "The relationships between children and their parent of the same gender in the earliest years of life could be the key to understanding why some young people become obese and others do not, new research conducted by the EarlyBird Diabetes Study has shown." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713100918.htm By Elizabeth Cohen -- CNN Senior Medical Correspondent 7/23/2009 "...Reid, who is African-American, firmly believes that if he'd been a white man, the junior doctor wouldn't have been so quick to order the cheaper and more drastic solution over his objections. "I think it was very disrespectful. As a matter of fact, I think she was looking down on me," he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/23/doctors.attitude.race.weight/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 4/8/2009 "Author Michael Gurian is the father of two daughters, but he says society has paid too much attention to girls, and now it's the boys' turn. He says some boys lose interest in school, have behavior problems or turn to violence and need direction. Gurian's latest book — which he says completes his trilogy on boys — is called The Purpose of Boys. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-04-08-gurian-boys_N.htm By Kansas City Star - Missouri 7/20/2009 "A new Missouri law decriminalizes nonpayment of child support for parents, assuming they don't have a serious criminal history. Instead of going to jail, the "deadbeats" will be enrolled into a program similar to drug court, the Post Dispatch reports. They'll get vocational help and, if necessary, substance-abuse counseling." Read the entire article: http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2009/07/new-mo-law-eases-the-burden-on-deadbeat-dads-and-moms.html By CNNHealth.com 7/20/2009 "For 12 years, Georgia Dunston and Dr. Chiledum Ahaghotu have been trying to figure out why African-American men develop prostate cancer at an earlier age and are twice as likely to die from it than any other group in the United States." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/20/prostate.cancer.black.men/index.html By FoxNews.com 7/8/2009 "Former Playboy model Shauna Sand cheated on ex-husband and soap opera star, Lorenzo Lamas, with his then-18-year-old son, A.J. Lamas, Star Magazine reports." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530805,00.html?mrp
By Les Carpenter -- Washington Post 7/9/2009 "Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot four times and killed by his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi, who then used the same gun to shoot herself in the head, according to a Nashville police investigation and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070803900.html By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Weekly Standard 6/29/2009 "A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but a "catastrophe" for men." Read the entire article: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/659dkrod.asp By Avis Thomas-Lester -- Washington Post Staff Writer 7/4/2009 "Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070302498.html By Michael Birnbaum -- Washington Post 7/6/2009 "When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two trends: girls-only schooling and online teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502424.html
By Michael Keifer -- The Arizona Republic 7/3/2009 "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. stole home in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 28. But three days earlier, he was tagged by the Arizona Court of Appeals in a child-support case that sets precedent in family-court fights in which the income of the parents is wildly lopsided. At issue was a 4-year-old child Matthews fathered by a Phoenix woman he never lived with. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/02/20090702matthews0702-ON.html By Leah Ward Sears -- CNN.com "After Tommy's sudden death, we found among my brother's personal effects a questionnaire he had completed in 2005 for a church class. The very first question was a fill-in-the-blank that went like this: "At the end of my life, I'd love to be able to look back and know I'd done something about ....." "Fathers," Tommy wrote. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/02/sears.family.divorce/index.html By FoxNews.com 7/9/2009 "An Idaho woman face charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy that she was hired to watch in August 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530882,00.html?mrp By FoxNews 6/29/2009 "When it comes to the question of who's hot or not, research has found that beauty is skin deep for men and in the eye of the beholder for women." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529396,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By YahooNews 6/29/2009 "The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a child custody dispute between a Texas mother and a British father that tests the boundaries of an international treaty. The court will take its first look at how American authorities handle the Hague Convention on child abduction, aimed at preventing one parent from taking children to other countries without the other's permission." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_child_custody_2 By MSNBC.com 6/29/2009 "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31609275/ns/politics-white_house/ By Christina Hoff Sommers -- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 6/29/2009 ""Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.aei.org/article/100695 By Trudy Schuett -- Examiner.com 6/27/2009 "Farrah Fawcett will mostly be remembered as a Charlie’s Angels chick and a pinup girl, but her performance in the Burning Bed was a durable, yet regrettable legacy. Sadly, the 1984 made-for-TV movie that portrayed premeditated murder as not only excusable, but heroic, won’t go with her. ...The movie however, helped establish a framework for dozens of later theatrical and TV movies that depict men as dangerous, violent abusers and women as saintly victims with nowhere to turn for help." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m6d27-Farrah-Fawcetts-Burning-Bed-legacy
By Trudy Schuett -- Examiner.com 6/29/2009 "Male and female perpetrators of domestic violence exhibit similar levels of controlling behaviour. This is one of the findings of a study presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology annual conference 23 June 2009 at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m6d29-Psychologists-examine-role-of-control-in-domestic-violence By Daniel Weaver -- The Examiner.com 6/21/2009 "Happy Father's Day to all fathers who love their children and are trying to make a difference in their lives. Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~y2009m6d21-Happy-Fathers-Day-to-all-fathers-even-those-wrongly-dubbed-deadbeat-dads By MSNBC.com 6/18/2009 "BlackBerry in hand and baby in tow, dads don't have much down time these days. Now, a new study reveals many Danish men are clocking up to 40 hours of overtime at work each week. Obviously, work is organized somewhat differently in many European countries, but the Danish study could apply to the United States, where longer work hours are becoming the norm as well, say the researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31428859/ns/health-mens_health/ By Examiner.com 6/24/2009 "Muhammad Ali and his daughter, boxer and new mother, Laila, are being dragged into Laila's husband's child support battle with his ex-wife from whom he has been divorced since 2004, according to Radar Online." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-7371-LA-Celebrity-Gossip-Examiner~y2009m6d24-Muhmad-Ali-caught-in-child-support-battle By Suzanne Cassidy -- Lancaster Newspapers - Pennsylvania 6/21/2009 "...Today, fathers are expected to be more than just breadwinners. They are expected to be fully engaged in the lives of their children. And yet, when they lose their jobs, it is the loss of the role of provider that can leave fathers reeling. ...Men have been particularly hard-hit by this recession. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in May rose to 7.5 percent for women and to 9.8 percent for men." Read the entire article: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239079 By Douglas v. Gibbs - Canada Free Press - Canada 6/24/2009 "The role of the father, in this day and age, has been downgraded to sperm donor and child support check writer. A woman seeking abortion could care less about a father’s right as a parent when she desires to snuff out the life of the child in an abortionist’s laboratory of death, but suddenly finds the importance of the father unequaled when it comes time for support - otherwise, he is a dead-beat dad." Read the entire article: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12277 By 2TheAdvocate - Louisiana 6/19/2009 "Research has shown that when both parents are actively and positively involved in their children’s lives, the children are more likely to lead healthy and productive lives. ...For unwed fathers, the first step in developing that parental bond is acknowledging paternity. Children with legal links to their fathers are more likely to know their full medical histories, have increased access to parental and financial resources, experience better life outcomes and, more importantly, form a bond with both parents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/48568822.html By 2TheAdvocate - Louisiana/Opinions 6/20/2009 "Father’s Day, which arrives Sunday, is a day to celebrate the emotional benefits of having a good father, but there are more tangible advantages that come from having a father actively engaged in your life. While that simple truth might seem too trite to note, we feel it’s worth highlighting in a culture that often seems to discount fatherhood as beside the point." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/48647442.html By Orangeburg Times Democrat – South Carolina/Opinion 6/21/2009 "OUR OPINION: Legal fatherhood important for dad’s role with children Fatherhood is about more than playing the male role in conception. It’s about more than being a visitor in a child’s life. Here’s a fact for fathers on this Father’s Day: In South Carolina, 49 percent of children are born to unmarried parents. With mother often being left as a single parent, too many children lack the influence of a father." Read the entire article: http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2009/06/21/opinion/doc4a3c23c0b4649148870569.txt By The Morning News - Arkansas 6/19/2009 "One of Benton County's most-wanted fugitives was arrested Thursday in Oklahoma, according to a news release from the Benton County Sheriff's Office. Showana Kissinger Glasco, 37, was wanted in connection with leaving the area with her two children in 1997 without legal custody, according to the release." Read the entire article: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/06/20/news/062009rzwanted.txt By FoxNews 6/15/2009 "Men are almost 40 percent more likely than women to die from cancer because they don't like going to the doctor and have unhealthy lifestyles, according to new research. They are also around 70 percent more likely to die from cancers that affect both men and women, such as stomach, liver and kidney cancer. ...There is "no known biological reason" why men should be more likely to develop cancer and die, they said in the study published to mark Men's Health Week. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526344,00.html
By ScienceDaily 6/10/2009 "Both boys and girls have issues, but boys seem to be the ones getting the raw deal. According to Judith Kleinfeld, professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US, issues affecting boys are more serious than those affecting girls, but they have been neglected by policy makers. Her review of issues characterizing American boyhood, how they compare to those affecting girls, and the lack of initiatives in place to address them has just been published in the June issue of Springer’s journal Gender Issues." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608125114.htm By Archie Ingersoll -- Grand Forks Herald 6/23/2009 "In an unusual case that's received international attention, a Grand Forks mother who police say was “extremely intoxicated” while breastfeeding her 6-week-old pleaded guilty to child neglect Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/123887 By phillyBurbs.com - Pennsylvania 6/21/2009 "....But many single teen fathers are not only willing but eager to help their partner and child, one 2005 study found. The problem is no one shows them how, parenting experts say. Little teen pregnancy research has involved teen fathers. Prevention education focuses on girls, not boys. Few support services focus on teen fathers' needs, and life circumstances leave most unequipped to deal with the responsibility of parenthood. ...Teen dads, as a whole, are a misunderstood group, said psychologist Mark Kiselica, a Newtown Township resident who has studied and worked with teen fathers for 30 years. Studies show that less than one-third of teen fathers fit the stereotype as irresponsible and unwilling to help raise his child, said Kiselica, author of "When Boys Become Parents: Adolescent Fatherhood in America."..." Read the entire article: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/262/2009/june/21/the-misunderstood-fathers.html By YahooNews.com 6/23/2009 "New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works — and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could see their federal money cut. The new standards were proposed Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, a bipartisan panel that spent five years studying the issue. It's estimated that about 60,000 inmates are sexually abused each year." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_prison_rape By FoxNews.com 6/19/2009 "Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings. In a letter to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal appeals court judge said she is convinced that the club does not practice "invidious discrimination" and that her membership in it did not violate judicial ethics. But she said she didn't want questions about it to "distract anyone from my qualifications and record." Federal judges are bound by a code that says they shouldn't join any organization that discriminates by race, sex, religion or nationality." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/sotomayor-quits-womens-club-gop-questions-affiliation/
By Gabriella Boston -- Washington Times 6/21/2009 "Today's dads are more cuddly with their children than the generation before them. At least that's what dads are self-reporting in a new survey from Lever 2000, part of its Making Every Touch Count campaign. According to the survey, up to 84 percent of dads surveyed say they show more physical affection to their own children than their parents did with them. The results are not surprising to Michael J. Diamond, a Los Angeles psychologist and author of "My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives." "Our notion of what constitutes masculinity is changing," Mr. Diamond said. Traditionally, hard (as in authoritarian) meant masculine, and soft (as in kind) meant feminine. But these qualities are not masculine or feminine per se, he says. They - and other qualities, including affection and intelligence - are just plain human, said Mr. Diamond." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/modern-dads-get-cuddly-with-kids/?feat=home_headlines By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 6/21/2009 "As this is the day when we pause to honor fathers, perhaps it's time to go beyond slippers and ties and do something meaningful for the men we love. Like prolong their healthy lives. A bill has been introduced in Congress to establish an Office of Men's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since the early 1990s, many offices on women's health have been created, and women clearly have benefited from them, said Scott Williams, a spokesman for the D.C.-based Men's Health Network. It would be great to have offices for men's health that mirror those for women, he said. "It's really a complementary approach — it's combining men's and women's health together to ultimately build healthy families."..." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/wetzstein-health-of-men-deserves-attention/ By Frank Miniter -- Washington Times/Editorial 6/21/2009 "This Father's Day, let's stand up as men and boldly shove back against this society's attacks on masculinity. To first be sure our left-right combination lands squarely, we have to clearly define manliness - we need to understand just what is being attacked before we can counterattack. The answer to who is manly and who isn't - as I discovered while researching my book "The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide" - has always been defined according to various cultures' codes of honor. If a Japanese samurai, for example, truly adhered to Bushido, or code of the warrior, he was honorable. The Chinese often were judged according to the Precepts of Taoism; Judea-Christians have long had the 10 Commandments; and throughout the Middle Ages, there were chivalric codes of honor and, later, in Europe and America (especially the South) the gentleman's codes of honor. These codes are not relics. Some modern codes include the Texas Ranger Code of Conduct and the U.S. Marine Corps Creed. It's just that they have lost traction with much of mainstream society. So OK, manliness has always been defined by a code of honor. So what's so bad about these codes?" Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/a-call-to-action-for-men/
By Rebecca Nappi -- The Spokesman Review 6/20/2009 "Women fighting for women’s rights garnered the lioness’ share of media attention in the later decades of the 20th century. Yet in those same decades, dedicated men were educating society about the importance of fathers. On this Father’s Day weekend, here’s a look at the lives of two Northwest men who were pioneers in the so-called father’s movement. Both are still active in fatherhood issues." Read the entire article: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/jun/20/fatherhood/ By Dallas Morning News - Texas 6/21/2009 "Caution: Men Out of Work. That's more than a pithy play on words. It is a sobering sign of the times, a troubling trend that David Zinczenko, editor in chief of Men's Health, cleverly calls the "Great He-Cession." Turns out that men – much more than women – are feeling the brutal brunt of a gut-wrenching recession that's devouring male-dominated jobs in construction and manufacturing. "This troubling trend has been going on for several years, but it really picked up speed at the end of 2008," Zinczenko wrote in a recent USA Today article. "Of the 5.2 million people who've lost their jobs since last summer, four out of five were men. "Some experts predict that this year, for the first time, more American women will have jobs than men. And that's just furthering the decline of the endangered male." I'm not ready to jump on the "endangered male" bandwagon just yet. Not after enduring all the "endangered-black-male" hype for two decades. Let's see, we're so endangered that a black male now runs the White House. Nor am I ready to emphatically declare that this draconian turn in the economy is as glum and gut-wrenching as the Great Depression that gripped our parents and grandparents. We have more safety nets than we did eight decades ago, even if they aren't fail-proof. This much is clear: Too many men – and fathers – are losing their identity and well-honed sense of self-worth as the traditional, breadwinning, daddy-knows-best role gives way to more women taking charge at work and at home." Read the entire article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-ragland_21met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4af7df9.html By Times Online – United Kingdom 6/18/2009 "The roles of men and women at home and at work are now changing so rapidly that they will share child-rearing duties equally in the near future, a new film argues. We look at the evolution of fatherhood and asks if guys are ready for it." Read the entire article: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6522170.ece
By Armstrong Williams -- Opinion -- Washington Times 6/17/2009 "The celebration of Father's Day allows our nation a moment to pause and reflect on the memories and experiences of childhood and fatherhood alike. Aside from the typical gift selection of a new tie, putter or power tools, no serious consideration is given to this holiday. This Father's Day, take a break from the barbecue grill, playing catch or listening to another one of dad's widely exaggerated stories (that you've already heard at least a thousand times), and ponder a more broad subject, the rights of a father. A father's rights have remained a largely hidden issue, tucked away beneath America's fiery and passionate opinions on abortion. In many ways, the parental rights of expectant fathers are blatantly ignored, and fathers are, in a court of law, unable to voice their opinion in regard to childbirth. A fundamental assumption leading to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was that because women are biologically tied to the birth process, they should therefore bear all responsibility in deciding the life or death of their children. The reason for this perspective is straightforward: Roe v. Wade rejected the idea that another person controlled a woman's body. ....We live in an age of eroding family values, in which fathers routinely abandon their children and disregard their familial responsibilities. Mr. Stachokus' desire to raise and care responsibly for his child should be commended and encouraged. Instead, the law brutally and arbitrarily denies that he has any right to his child whatsoever. Countless men are faced with the same nightmare of having no voice in the execution of their children. "Men's rights are trampled on all the time when it comes to reproductive rights," said Dianna Thompson, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. It is time to fight back, to force our government to re-evaluate the logic of treating men as little more than fertilizers. ..." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/a-critical-role-for-fathers/print/
By WNDU16- Indiana 6/15/2009 "Roughly 5,000 people are supposed to pay child support in Cass County, and roughly 1,900 are behind on those payments. But the worst offenders will soon face criminal charges. Cass County prosecutor Victor Fitz flagged 18 people; together, they are behind in roughly $500,000 in payments, Fitz said. "These are people that aren't trying," Fitz said. "These are people that are playing cat and mouse with the system. It's more important for them to take care of their own selfish needs than to do their darndest to take care of their kids," he said. One of the people who isn't getting the child support he's supposed to is 38-year-old Todd Allen. "Any little bit would help," said Allen, who works nights at a foundry to support his two kids from a previous marriage. He now lives with his new wife; together, they raise 5 children. "There's weeks where it will be extremely tight and we live paycheck to paycheck," said Allen. His wife, one of the 18 people the prosecutor's office sent a letter to, lives out of state. The letter states she could face up to 4 years in prison. "Once that felony warrant is issued, if you're convicted, then every time you make out a job application and you get to that little 'have you ever been convicted of a felony?' box, you gotta check yes," said Ron Cruzan, a warrant officer with Cass County. Felony charges will be initiated Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/48108012.html By Chad Skelton -- Canada.com - Canada 6/15/2009 "With Father's Day less than a week away, millions of dads can look forward to hearing how great they are.Yet -- at the risk of inciting a lot of hate mail -- I can't help but wonder if at least some of that praise is probably undeserved. And that's because dads seem to be held to an entirely different -- and much lower -- standard than moms are. Think about it. When you call someone a "Great Dad", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that they are a truly exceptional parent, going above and beyond the call? Or, instead, is "Great Dad" a term you give to any father who shows any interest in parenting at all? One who even occasionally does the jobs (changing diapers, feeding, storytime) that we usually think of as women's work? My wife is often told by her friends and family what a "great dad" I am. And as flattering and she, and I, find that, it also kind of ticks her off. Because, aside from me, virtually no one ever tells her what a great mom she is." Read the entire article: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/parenting/archive/2009/06/15/fathers-day-dads-lower-standard.aspx By Mike Krumboltz -- Yahoo Buzz 6/16/2009 "For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems. On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma. The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."..." Read the entire article: http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92681?fp=1 By Ryan Carter Record Herald - Ohio 6/15/2009 ""Why don't women who owe child support go to jail?" Two local men who pay child support recently made claims that the mothers of their children (who both have been ordered to pay child support) are treated with more leniency when they fail to make their child support payments. "My ex-wife is supposed to be paying child support on three of my kids," said a Fayette County man who requested anonymity. "I've been paying child support to her mother who has custody of the kids. I've already been locked up a couple of times for not paying." The man also claims that his ex-wife hasn't paid any child support since 2003. "She lives in (another state) and when I ask the child support agency why she can't be arrested, they tell me it's hard to enforce it when she's out of state," he said. "I just don't think it's right that they don't arrest her. I'm taking care of my business now and she isn't. It's not right." Another local man who has custody of his youngest child said his ex-girlfriend is also chronically late on child support payments, yet nothing has been done. "I'm perfectly fine taking care of my child and I like this setup," he said. "But if the shoe was on the other foot, I would most likely be in trouble. If you have a court order to do something, and in this case it's to pay child support, you should have to do it or pay the consequences."..." Read the entire article: http://www.recordherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=133468&TM=29083.55 By Kari Henley -- Huffungton Post 6/4/2009 ..."Now, before you get hot and huffy here about gender sexism, bear with me. This scenario is not far from the truth for our upcoming leaders of tomorrow. Since the 1970's feminism has opened up unparalleled opportunity for women to move forward in education and business. Is it perfect? No, but today's daughters are breaking glass ceilings and blazing trails. However, there are glass shards and dead end roads being inadvertently left for the men, and the boys. In the past ten years or so, the world of education has changed dramatically. The "No Child Left Behind Act" has been a disaster, and instead has turned into "All Boys Left Behind." Our nation's boys are not just slipping through the cracks, they are washing down the Grand Canyon without a paddle, and something must be done about it. Peg Tyre is author of the book, The Trouble with Boys, a #1 best seller, coming out in paperback this summer. Tyre spent five years researching the current education system from every demographic. She has a powerful, unrelenting story of how our young men are struggling, and describes a giant education gap that will affect every level of American life, in a very short period of time, as these kids grow up. Currently, boys are being "expelled" from preschool four times more than girls. They are 60% more likely to be held back in kindergarten, and twice as likely to be diagnosed with learning disabilities. Only 43% of young men are enrolled as undergraduates in college, girls are taking more AP classes in high school, and dominating as school valedictorians. In fact, a "dirty little secret" at many colleges and universities is the unspoken "new gender gap." Boys are being admitted to colleges with lesser qualifications than girls to keep the gender balance." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-henley/no-child-left-behind-all_b_214937.html By The Week Magazine 6/11/2009 "....Plenty of guys say men aren't natural parents, said Ellie White in Britain's The Sun. In addition to Michael Lewis, who writes that fatherhood can be "boring and demoralizing," there's Ben George, editor of the literary journal Ecotone, who says men are only beginning to talk openly about the "dark moments of fatherhood." And Fox News broadcaster Steve Doocy, author of the forthcoming book Tales From the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood, says men aren't wired for parenting the way women are. Men are wired to be good parents, said Aaron Traister in Salon, but many struggle to overcome pressure from a society that still tells them they should be making money and not taking care of babies. The old gender roles started crumbling the moment our moms entered the workforce. Instead of clinging to the responsibilities men think we should have, we should "embrace the ones that are right in front of us," the ones wearing the droopy diapers." Read the entire article: http://www.theweek.com/article/index/97503/Are_men_bad_parents
By Examiner.com 6/11/2009 "On Sunday, June 21, people all over the world will commemorate Father’s Day, a day set aside to honor men who have sacrificed to raise offspring. But, I often wonder about how children that don’t have fathers really feel. In the twenty-first century with our modern-day ideologies about responsible parenting, a lot of men fail to “father” their children. Not unlike males in the animal kingdom, they “hit that,” and go on to the next victim of unbridled passion and unprotected sex. Many men may never know the woman has conceived; and sadly, some women couldn’t identify their baby’s daddy without a paternity test! Anonymous absentee dads have become more the norm than the exception, far removed from the Biblical genealogies that recorded who begot whom with accuracy and aplomb. While we honor those fathers that elected to honorably marry and rear children, my heart aches for children that don’t know their dads. That missing link can make the difference between a child that is self-assured and feels secure and one that fails to connect emotionally and spiritually to those that offer love. A mother or grandmother, uncle, cousin, or older brother can never replace a birth father’s love, given freely, self-sacrificially, and without reservation. Mothers are not meant to be both Mom and Dad." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-7327-Atlanta-Christianity-Examiner~y2009m6d11-Fathers-Day-a-challenge-to-absentee-fathers By Philadelphia Daily News - Pennsylvania - Opinion - 6/11/2009 "FATIMAH Ali's condemnation of the "Deadbeat Dads" TV show required courage and her personal experiences lend her views credibility. The show's unacceptability lies in the way it targets a single demographic group - divorced fathers - and offers a portrait in which all group members commit crimes. This is repugnant stereotyping. "Bridezilla" pokes fun at members of a specific class, but doesn't present them as candidates for incarceration. A program called "Mothers Who Abuse and Neglect Their Kids" could never appear. "Deadbeat Dads" should be treated the same way." Read the entire article: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20090611_Letters__Bravo__Fatimah__on_brave__Deadbeat_Dads__commentary.html 10/2009 "Claims of bias against women in academic science have been greatly exaggerated. Meanwhile, men are becoming the second sex in American higher education. In 2006 the National Academy of Sciences released Beyond Bias And Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, which found “pervasive unexamined gender bias” against women in academic science. Donna Shalala, a former Clinton administration cabinet secretary, chaired the committee that wrote the report. When she spoke at a congressional hearing in October 2007, she warned that strong measures would be needed to improve the “hostile climate” women face in university science. This “crisis,” as she called it, “clearly calls for a transformation of academic institutions . . . Our nation’s future depends on it.”...." Read the entire article: http://www.american.com/archive/2009/june/baseless-bias-and-the-new-second-sex By FoxNews.com 6/10/2009 "Attorneys and advocates are questioning why an 18-year-old East Texan with profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison in a child sex abuse case. They say the case of Aaron Hart was mishandled from start to finish and raises questions over how to deal with the mentally disabled when they encounter the criminal justice system. After a neighbor found Hart fondling her 6-year-old stepson in September, the East Texas teenager pleaded guilty to five counts, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. Hart has an IQ of 47 and was diagnosed as mentally disabled as a child. He never learned to read or write and speaks unsteadily. Despite being a target of bullies, he was courteous, well-behaved and earned money by doing chores for neighbors, supporters said. His parents say he'd never acted out sexually. "He couldn't understand the seriousness of what he did," said his father, Robert Hart. "I never dreamed they would think about sending him to prison. When they said 100 years — it was terror, pure terror, to me."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525751,00.html?mrp By CBSNews.ca 6/5/2009 "An eight-year-old girl at the centre of a controversial child custody battle said she doesn't agree with her parents that ethnic minorities should be killed, but that they should go back to their own countries, a Winnipeg courtroom heard. On Friday, court heard a 40-minute videotaped interview the girl had with police hours after she had been seized by child welfare authorities. Her mother and stepfather, who are accused of racist teachings and failing to provide adequate care for the girl and her brother, began a court battle for their children last week." Read the entire article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/06/05/custody-battle.html?ref=rss By Linda Deutsch -- YahooNews.com 6/9/2009 "The parents of a woman slain 23 years ago are demanding to know why it took so long for Los Angeles police to focus on one of their own as a suspect, despite several angry confrontations between their daughter and the accused veteran investigator. Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, is accused of killing Sherri Rasmussen, her ex-boyfriend's wife, in 1986, when Lazarus had been on the police force for two years. But when Rasmussen's father told authorities after the slaying to look into her husband's former girlfriend in the LAPD, their lawyer says he was told he was "watching too much TV."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_on_re_us/us_detective_killing By Khadijah Rentas -- CNN.com 6/9/2009 "A father returned to his central Michigan home late Monday to find his wife and two sons dead, police say, and the horrific scene shows the signs of a murder-suicide. The mother, in her 30s, was found dead, along with her two preteen sons, and police say that she may have killed her sons before killing herself. But police are still investigating and awaiting an autopsy report, which they say will hold more clues to what happened inside the family home in Eaton County near Lansing. It is unclear why the mother would have killed her children, police have said. ....Investigators questioned the father, who called police about 5:20 p.m. He stumbled upon the scene, police say, when he walked into his apartment at Plum Tree Apartments in the Waverly area of Delta Township just west of Lansing. Police say he is shaken over the loss of his family and is meeting with a victim's advocate. ....In his 18 years on the force, Lt. Jeff Warder of the Eaton County Sheriff's Office said he has never had a mother-child murder-suicide case." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/09/michigan.family.killed/index.html?eref=rss_crime By CNN.com 6/10/2009 ..."Half of the 46 million eligible voters are women. In 1997, more than 60 percent of the votes that brought former President Mohammad Khatami to power were cast by women, and in 2000 women voters were instrumental in giving reformists a sweeping majority in the parliament. Promising greater individual freedoms to Iran's young people was instrumental in the two landslide victories by Khatami in 1997 and 2001. Ironically, during the 2005 presidential election, candidate Ahmadinejad said he would loosen state control over people's personal affairs. Trying to garner support among women and young voters, in one of his pre-election television interviews he questioned the role of the morality police: "Let our children arrange their hair any way they wish. It does not concern you and me. ... The government should fix the economy of the nation and improve its atmosphere. ... People have variegated tastes." His broken promises to women voters could cost him the presidency on June 12. A reformist woman and a former member of parliament said in a newspaper article that the president's days are numbered: "The women's movement in Iran is gaining momentum and these elections may be the first step towards Ahmadinejad [being] forced out." Indeed, women have become critical players in Iran's electoral map. More women activists are making their voices and demands heard and have formed coalitions to defeat the incumbent. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/09/gerges.iran.election/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Jackie Damico CNN 6/5/2009 "Former teacher Charlene Schmitz is behind bars in a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, serving 10 years for using texts and instant messages to seduce a 14-year-old student. Read the entire article: http://vzw.cnn.mlogic.mobi/cnn/ne/crime/detail/316766/1 By Morgan Neill -- CNN 6/8/2009 "They are young, earn little and spend little, and take a keen interest in fashion and personal appearance -- meet the "herbivore men" of Japan. Author and pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa coined the term in 2006 in a series of articles on marketing to a younger generation of Japanese men. She used it to describe some men who she said were changing the country's ideas about just what is -- and isn't -- masculine. "In Japan, sex is translated as 'relationship in flesh,'" she said, "so I named those boys 'herbivorous boys' since they are not interested in flesh." Typically, "herbivore men" are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women, Fukasawa said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/japan.herbivore.men/index.html
By CNN.com 6/8/2009 "A woman whose body was found in the crawl space of an Oregon home -- the mother of a newborn who also died -- died from "homicidal violence," the state's deputy medical examiner said Monday. An autopsy showed causes of 21-year-old Heather Snively's death included blunt-force trauma and "sharp-force injuries," Dr. Christopher Young said. Sharp-force injuries mean cut or stab wounds. Young said additional information will not be released until test results are received. Korena Roberts, 28, is charged with murder in Snively's death. She was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/oregon.pregnancy.murder/index.html?eref=rss_crime By LivingstonDaily.com 6/8/2009 "A judge recently sentenced a bunch of deadbeat dads to attend episodes of "The Jerry Springer Show." He wanted them to witness their shabby lifestyle lampooned by other deadbeats in front of a live audience. Current out-of-wedlock birth statistics — about 40 percent, and perhaps higher in some communities — indicate something is amiss. It would appear that whatever passes for sex education these days is a washout. This is not to scorn or shame women who bear children out of wedlock. Every life is precious, both baby and mother. Raising kids and doing it well is tough enough work without further scandalizing, especially for a single parent. A supportive family is a precious gift to mother and child. A family should include a dad. Meanwhile, some of the nicest, most caring and diligent families I know are making do without a dad on staff. But that's not easy. ...The jarring statistic quoted above highlights the need to get an honest fix on how we've drifted into these shallows. We obviously need to pass along some sounder advice to pubescent children sailing out into a real world." Read the entire article: http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090608/OPINION01/906080312 By CNN.com 6/9/2009 "Expecting moms can determine whether they're carrying a boy or a girl as early as 10 weeks after conception, according to makers of an over-the-counter gender prediction test. IntelliGender, the Plano, Texas, creator of the "Boy or Girl Gender Prediction Test," says scientists isolated certain hormones that when combined with a "proprietary mix of chemicals" react differently if a woman is carrying a boy or a girl. It claims that within 10 minutes of taking the urine test, a woman will be able to tell her baby's gender. The specimen will turn green if it's a boy, and orange if it's a girl. IntelliGender would not say what hormones or chemicals it uses it in its test because of a pending patent. "Most parents have a great degree of curiosity to find out if they're having a boy or a girl, and it can be so excruciating to wait until the 20-week sonogram to find out," IntelliGender co-founder Rebecca Griffin said. "But the test was never meant to be a diagnostic tool. We don't claim 100 percent accuracy."...." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/09/gender.prediction.test/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By People.com 6/9/2009 "It's a boy for Thomas Beatie, better known as the Pregnant Man. Beatie, who was born a woman and then underwent a sex change operation, gained international attention last year when it was revealed he had become perhaps the first legally transgender male to get pregnant. A photo of the bearded Beatie with a pregnant belly became a sensation." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284188,00.html By Glenda Anderson -- The Press Democrat 6/9/2009 "A Lake County teen was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for stabbing to death a former friend last year at a Clearlake school bus stop. Gabrielle Varney, 19, remained calm as the family of classmate Heather Valdez unleashed their anger during her sentencing before Lake County Superior Court Judge Arthur Mann. “If it was up to me, you would die in the gas chamber,” said Valdez’s aunt, Tammy Davis. She called Varney a “cold-blooded killer” and “pond scum.” Varney pleaded guilty in April to voluntary manslaughter and using a knife to kill Valdez. The plea carried a maximum 12-year sentence. Mann selected a shorter sentence, saying the stabbing did not appear to be premeditated. He noted that Varney did not have a prior criminal record and she immediately confessed." Read the entire article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090609/ARTICLES/906089913/0/NEWS By Yahoo News 6/5/2009 "Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging. The federal appeals court judge divulged new details about her finances and provided three decades of writings, speeches and rulings that give both supporters and critics fresh fodder for the coming debate on her confirmation. They include more instances in which she said she hopes a "wise Latina" would reach a better decision than a man without that experience." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090605/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_supreme_court
By Joel Schwartzberg -- The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark 6/4/2009 "I never thought being a divorced father would put me in a special interest group, but in doing marketing research for my memoir on divorced dadhood, I came across several "dads' rights" websites, activists, and blogs arguing for stronger chilI never thought being a divorced father would put me in a special interest group, but in doing marketing research for my memoir on divorced dadhood, I came across several "dads' rights" websites, activists, and blogs arguing for stronger child custody protections, fighting media stereotypes, and even debunking what they consider domestic violence myths. The volume of their buzzing reached a new decibel when Lifetime TV announced their intention to air Deadbeat Dads, a reality show in which National Child Support founder Jim Durham travels about the country, lassoing fathers who refuse to pay child support. Originally called "Bad Dads," the idea was floated -- then apparently sunk -- at FOX. The only real surprise is that it was never called "POPS."....The problem -- says Fathers & Families, a dad-vocacy group -- is that a strong majority of divorced dads with shared custody pay child support regularly, so such a program paints an unrealistic and demeaning stereotype of divorced fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/parenting/joel_schwartzberg/index.ssf/2009/06/deadbeat_dads_is_lifetime_tv_s.html
By ScienceDaily.com 5/20/2009 "Domestic violence can happen to men, not only to women, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Domestic violence in men is under-studied and often hidden--much as it was in women 10 years ago," said study leader Robert J. Reid, MD, PhD, an associate investigator at the Group Health Center for Health Studies. "We want abused men to know they're not alone."...." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080519083020.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/29/2009 "Sipping wine, beer or spirits three to four times per week increases the risk of binge drinking, particularly among young men, according to a new study published in the journal Addiction. Researchers from the Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario analyzed the drinking habits of Canadians and found that frequent alcohol consumption can lead to binge drinking among all gender and all age groups. Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110631.htm By ScienceDaily.com 6/4/2009 "Men and women may not be from two different planets after all when it comes to choosiness in mate selection, according to new research from Northwestern University. When women were assigned to the traditionally male role of approaching potential romantic partners, they were not any pickier than men in choosing that special someone to date, according to the speed dating study. That finding, of course, is contrary to well established evolutionary explanations about mate selection. An abundance of such research suggests that women are influenced by higher reproductive costs (bearing and raising children) than men and thus are much choosier when it comes to love interests." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090603101406.htm By Winnipeg Free Press 6/1/2009
By FoxNews.com 6/4/2009 "A mob of furious neighbors of an 11-year-old girl raped on her way to school in Philadelphia won't be charged for beating a man wanted for questioning in the case. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Thursday that no charges will be filed against the group of about a dozen residents of the city's West Kensington section who attacked 26-year-old Jose Carrasquillo. Ramsey added that he doesn't condone violence. The crowd pummeled Carrasquillo for several minutes on Tuesday with wooden sticks, their hands and their feet before police arrived to take him into custody. The attack was videotaped." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525088,00.htmlBy USA Today 6/4/2009 "Tourette syndrome occurs in 3 out of every 1,000 school-aged children, and is more than twice as common in white kids as in blacks or Hispanics, according to the largest U.S. study to estimate how many have the disorder. Tourette's — known for its physical tics and, in some cases, shouted obscenities — has long been considered a rare condition. The new number means it's more common than some past estimates, but confirms that it's far less common than other neurological conditions like autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The racial gaps are probably the most surprising finding, said study's authors said. "Prior to this, we really had very little information about minorities," said Lawrence Scahill, a Yale University researcher. The study was released Thursday. ...The study, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimates there are about 150,000 U.S. children with Tourette's, below the 200,000 threshold for rare diseases. The researchers also found that: • Most cases were mild, but one in four were — in the parent's opinion — moderate or severe. • Boys had a rate three times higher than girls. • About 80% had been diagnosed with another mental illness or developmental disability." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-04-tourette-study_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY 5/4/2009 "Even as colleges nationwide celebrate commencement season, hundreds of schools are failing to graduate a majority of their students in six years, a report says today. Nationally, four-year colleges graduated an average of just 53% of entering students within six years, and "rates below 50%, 40% and even 30% are distressingly easy to find," says the report by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. It's based on data reported to the Education Department by nearly 1,400 schools about full-time first-time students who entered in fall 2001." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-06-03-diploma-graduation-rate_N.htm?POE=click-refer
By Susanna Dunkerly -- The Age - Australia -- 6/3/2009 "The Child Support Agency has come under fire for preventing an unemployed carer from travelling overseas to visit his sick mother because he owed a small child support fine. The case is one of many highlighted in a damning report by the Commonwealth Ombudsman into the use of Departure Prohibition Orders (DPOs) to prevent child support cheats from leaving Australia. The man, who is referred to as Mr H, was issued a DPO by the agency after they learned of his plans to travel overseas. The agency questioned why he had money to leave the country when he had a debt of around $5,000. He explained that he had no personal income because he was caring full-time for his partners' two children, and his parents had paid for the tickets. But the agency decided he was not going anywhere." Read the entire article: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/separated-parents-grounded-in-australia-20090603-bvnc.html By Richard Savill -- Telegraph.co.uk 6/1/2009 "Bryan Lee, 65, wrote to Mid Devon District Council in response to a planning application for a "pitch to accommodate a traveller family", with what he considered to be legitimate concerns. After detailing the problems he had faced with travellers in the past and raising issue that it would not be appropriate for the area, he was surprised to receive a reply labelling his statements "racist". The letter from the council read: "I have to tell you that if the council receives any more racist representations from you, this matter will be referred to the Commission for Racial Equality or the police for investigation. Mr Lee said: "I think it is absolutely outrageous. This political correctness is going too far. It was a factual report of my own experience."..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5422677/Retired-farmer-branded-racist-for-complaint-about-travellers-site.html
By Walter Backstrom -- KentReporter.com 6/2/2009 "I was talking to a kindergarten teacher recently. She showed me a book that they use. In that book, they talk about slavery. I’m not kidding. When I saw the passage related to race, my blood pressure spiked, and I decided to throw away my double-short latte. That is all we need: A book that makes white people feel guilty and black people feel like victims — in kindergarten. I was under the impression that they were supposed to learn their ABCs and colors. Clearly, I was wrong. This is what happens when the politically correct crowd, white guilt and black victimhood meet. I must tell you, this is nothing but foolishness run amok. We continue to be obsessed with race. Every disagreement that a minority has with a white person does not have to have a racial component to it. Both people could just be jerks. In this country, right below the surface is the continuing legacy about race. I realize we have a black president. But even he has to walk between two worlds. He can’t be too white-acting for black people, and he can’t be too black-acting for black people. All this has to be accomplished before lunch." Read the entire article: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/ken/opinion/46731607.html By MSNBC.com 6/2/2009 "A 51-year-old woman used guilt about her family's difficult finances to get her young sons and their friends to help her pay bills by committing at least 20 armed robberies in the Phoenix area, authorities said. Cynthia Roberson, her two sons, ages 12 and 14, and five others face charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault, investigators said Monday. "All of us should be disgusted by this," Phoenix police Sgt. Phil Roberts said. "This is absolutely not how to raise your children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31057070/ By Gabriella Boston -- Washington Times 5/31/2009 ..."Not so fast, says Andrew Sum, a labor-economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston: "Unemployment numbers will continue to be high." Those numbers are particularly gruesome among young, black males, which is beyond worrisome for the black family and community, experts in those areas say. For example, for black males ages 20 to 24, the unemployment rate is close to 50 percent; in the black community overall, men have absorbed 100 percent of the job losses 463,000 jobs since the recession started in November 2007. And even if the economy grows by the forecasted 1.3 percent, it's not enough to create job growth, says Mr. Sum, who doesn't anticipate any net job growth until 2011. "From a fatherhood perspective, it's going to have an enormous impact on an already fragile community," says Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit group aimed at "increasing the proportion of children growing up with an involved, responsible and committed father." "So much of the traditional view of the father revolves around his ability to provide," says Mr. Warren, who writes a column for The Washington Times." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/31/recession-hits-black-men/ By Gerald Nissenbaum - Boston Herald - Massachusetts 5/31/2009 " Q: I divorced my husband in 2007. At that time, I wasn’t working and couldn’t care for our two kids so I let them live with my husband and I was required to pay child support. I recently got a notice from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue claiming I owe about $2,000 in unpaid child support. I went to court to look at my divorce file. There was a worksheet saying I should pay $75 monthly child support. But there was no such order in the divorce agreement. Since the divorce, my ex-husband has never let me see our kids. Can I get my children back now that I am working and have an apartment for them to live in?"
By Fort Worth Star Telegram - Texas 5/31/2009 "The Texas attorney general’s office recently released its list of top child-support evaders, and there was something notable that was never mentioned. It’s not called the list of deadbeat dads anymore. Of the top five worst evaders, two were women. Did you read any news stories on this? I know I didn’t. Granted, I’m more sensitive to this matter. Until a few months ago, I was a single father with full custody of my son. While this often made me an anomaly at school functions, soccer games and child birthday parties, it gave me a unique perspective on how this world treats men who want to be involved in their children’s lives. Let’s just say it is not very positive. When my son was taken from me across state lines, there was no help; certainly not from the law. In the tradition of the American and Texan spirit, I went and got him on my own. After we returned, I sought some assistance to get him in day care and make sure he had food. Imagine my shock when a state-appointed worker told me that she would not help me with my child, but if the mother came in they would help her." Read the entire article: http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1405534.html By Bruce DeMara Toronto Star - Canada 5/29/2009 "A Barrie woman has filed a request to an Ontario court to compel actor Keanu Reeves to provide a DNA sample as part of a bid to get support for herself and her four children. Karen Sala, 46, who is acting as her own lawyer, filed notice on Monday in the Superior Court of Justice family branch. Legal papers were served on Reeves' business manager in Los Angeles two days ago. The first court date for the case is July 6 in Barrie. "I'm pissed. I just want him to stand up and be a man," Sala said in an interview yesterday. A spokesperson for the actor said Reeves denies even knowing Sala and strongly rejects her claims. None of the allegations have been proven in court. ....In addition to the DNA test, Sala is seeking child support of $150,000 per month, retroactive to June 1988, as well as $3 million per month in spousal support retroactive to November 2006." Read the entire article: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/642316 By Hans Bader -- Examiner.com – District of Columbia 5/25/2009 "Memorial Day is an opportunity to thank our troops, and open our eyes to the disgraceful way they are treated by divorce courts. The bias that divorce courts in my home state of Virginia exhibit against males, people who start small businesses, and breadwinner spouses in general has been ably chronicled by Richard Crouch, a prominent family lawyer, in the Virginia state bar publication Family Law News. But what ashames me most as a lawyer is how divorce courts routinely flout our troops’ rights under federal law. Crouch notes that Virginia courts ignore federal law by ordering members of the military to share their pensions with spouses who divorced them after even short marriages: “Something everybody learned early on is that a military wife had to have ten years of marriage to the service member overlapping ten years of military service to divide the pension. However, the Virginia Court of Appeals has adopted the rule that this statutory limitation in 10 USC 1408 limits only direct payment by the military of the former spouse’s half of the pension. Thus a service member can be required by a Virginia court to split his or her military retirement with the former spouse even if it was less than a ten year marriage. Cook v. Cook, 18 Va. App. 726, 446 SE2d 894 (1994).” This contempt for the legal rights of divorced soldiers matters a lot, because soldiers have fairly high divorce rates, thanks to the stresses and strains of military life, such as unforeseen deployments overseas. Usually, it is the wife, not the husband, who initiates the divorce (two-thirds of divorces in America are initiated by the wife, not the husband, although male spouses of female soldiers also initiate many divorces. Most divorces are no-fault divorces. By the way, I am not divorced)." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Divorce-courts-harass-our-troops-and-small-businesses By Brian Reisinger • Wausau Daily Herald • 5/23/2009 "...."One week we found out we were having a baby, and the next week, we found out we only had one income," Buksa, 40, said as his now 6-month-old daughter, Megan, peered about their living room in the Taylor County village of Rib Lake. Buksa is among a surging number of central Wisconsin residents, particularly men, who unexpectedly are becoming stay-at-home parents in the national recession. Their new role is a direct consequence of rising unemployment rates, which for March reached 12.1 percent in Wausau. Although men and women both have faced layoffs, industries that typically employ more men, such as housing and manufacturing, are struggling the most. The national unemployment rate among men was 10 percent in April, compared with 7.6 percent among women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. The rate for men has grown almost twice as rapidly as that of women since January. The recent growth in at-home fatherhood mirrors a larger social movement. With women taking on a larger role in the professional world in recent decades, experts say it's natural for more men to stay at home than in the past." Read the entire article: http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090523/WDH0101/905230655/1981
By Examiner.com 5/25/20009 "Ginger Weatherspoon, a former Assistant Attorney General in Texas, has filed a lawsuit in Dallas County District Court claiming that she was fired for refusing to sign a false affidavit accusing Judge David Hanschen of wrongdoing. Judge Hanschen has been at odds with the Texas Attorney General's office for several years over what he claims are unfair and deceptive practices used to award and collect child support. Some staff in the Attorney General's office had been collecting affidavits accusing Judge Hanschen of threatening the AG's office or issuing prejudicial rulings against AAGs. Presumably their intent was to file a complaint of judicial misconduct against Hanschen. ....The Texas Attorney General's office prides itself on its relentless pursuit of deadbeat parents and portrays itself as an advocate for children. The office's Child Support Division has been nationally recognized for leading the country in child support collections. Critics point out that since the office receives federal funds based on the amount of child support it collects, there is a financial incentive to close as many cases as possible without regard for the rights of the parties involved. Since 2007, Judge Hanschen and other family court judges have been questioning some of the tactics employed by the AG's office. They claim that the office often railroads poor uneducated men into giving up their rights and traps them into paying child support for children that are not even theirs." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-5845-Single-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Whistleblower-claims-Texas-unfairly-targeted-judges-who-defend-fathers-rights By Diane Mapes - MSNBC.com 5/27/2009 "Women worry about a lot — their children, relationships, jobs, health, hair and so on. But new research out of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has found that some women are worrying about something rather unexpected: prostate cancer. The wives and partners of men with prostate cancer actually worry more about the cancer’s recurrence than the men themselves, according to a study presented at a recent meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Montreal. The study, which focused on 96 men and their long-term spouses or girlfriends, found that at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis, male patients described themselves as “moderately worried” about the chance of their disease recurring, while female spouses and partners described themselves as “very much” worried." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30888849/
By Mayo Clinic.com "Domestic violence against men isn't always easy to recognize, but it can be a serious threat. Consider ways to break the cycle. Women are more often the victims of domestic violence — but domestic violence affects men, too. Understand the signs of domestic violence against men, and know how to get help. Recognize domestic violence against men ....Domestic violence — also known as domestic abuse, battering or intimate partner violence — occurs between people in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse. It can happen in heterosexual or homosexual relationships." Read the entire article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/domestic-violence-against-men/MY00557
By CNN.com 5/22/2009 "Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl. A revised complaint against Huckaby, 28, of Tracy, California, was made public just hours before she was due back in court on Friday. The new charges caused another delay in the murder case, CNN afiliate KRON reported. The complaint charged that Huckaby "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink" with the intent to harm the child, identified only as "Jane M. Doe." Another alleged poisoning victim was identified as Daniel Plowman, but no age or other information was immediately provided." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/22/california.slain.girl/index.html?eref=rss_crime By YahooNews.com 5/24/2009 "An Oregon mother was arrested Saturday in the drowning of her 4-year-old son after the boy and his 7-year-old sister ended up in the chilly Williamette River. Residents heard screams on the Sellwood Bridge near Portland and called authorities. Some jumped into boats to help search in the early morning darkness. After about an hour, a couple found the children downstream. The boy, Eldon Jay Rebhan Smith, could not be revived; the girl was in a hospital and expected to survive." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_re_us/us_oregon_dead_child The Washington Times 5/25/2009 "All the pink, frilly and sparkly - from the princess dresses to the four-foot-high pink castle in the playroom - isn't necessarily what Caroline Morris would choose for her eldest daughter. She doesn't want to stop her 6-year-old from being who she is. But as princess fever has reached a new high with this generation of girls, she and other parents are feeling the urge to rein in the would-be reigning ones, just a little. That's especially true in tough economic times, when more parents are focusing on messages of frugality and humility that, they say, just don't fit with the princess mentality that has become a rite of passage for many girls. Mrs. Morris knows, of course, that some parents think such worries are ridiculous. "But what happens when our daughters get to adulthood, and they realize that the world isn't a fairy tale?" asks Mrs. Morris, who lives in suburban Atlanta and insists she doesn't mind imaginative play. She just wants her girls to strive for something beyond being "pretty and glamorous." ....." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/25/the-princess-pedestal/print/ By John F. Burns - New York Times 5/25/2009 " A historic month for women in British poetry turned sour on Monday when the first woman in 301 years elected to Oxford University’s prestigious chair in poetry resigned and admitted what she had previously denied — that she had played a part in a covert effort to taint her main rival for the post with old allegations of sexual impropriety. Ruth Padel, 63, was chosen only 10 days ago for the Oxford post, which is regarded as second only to poet laureate among the formal distinctions for poets in Britain. Two weeks earlier, Carol Ann Duffy, 53, became Britain’s first female poet laureate, a post formally created in 1668. Ms. Padel’s admission that she sent e-mail messages to two reporters last month alerting them to allegations of sexual harassment against her main rival for the Oxford post, the Nobel literature laureate Derek Walcott, was a stunning turn in a saga of skullduggery that had opened a bitter schism in Britain’s literary world." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/books/26poet.html By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe -- 5/26/2009 "IN THE past 10 years, with my biological clock winding down and no husband in sight, I have been asked quite a few times if I had considered having a child on my own. What used to be scandalous is now practically a conventional life choice. This is borne out by a new report released recently by the National Center for Health Statistics. Nearly 40 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2007, up from 34 percent in 2002 and 18 percent in 1980, were born to unmarried women. While unwed childbearing is much more common in black and Hispanic communities, the trend cuts across racial lines; moreover, it is driven primarily by women in their 20s and 30s, not teens. Should we treat single motherhood as "the new normal" or as a problem that needs to be addressed? And what about the fathers? For some, the growth of single-mother families is a sign of female empowerment. If children without fathers fare worse than children in two-parent families, say defenders of single mothers, the answer is better pay for women and better social programs. Yet even in Sweden with its generous welfare state, a major 2003 study found that children raised in single-parent homes were at significantly higher risk for addictions and serious psychiatric problems."..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/05/26/single_mothers_and_the_baby_boom/ By FoxNews.com 5/21/2009 "Alec Baldwin is apologizing for making a joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride that provoked a sharp response in the Philippines. The Emmy-winning actor quipped during a May 12 interview on "The Late Show with David Letterman" that he would love to have more children and that he was "thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point ... or a Russian one."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520998,00.html
By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Double X 5/20/2009 ...."In Friedan's day, women were clearly the second sex. Not so today. Yes, many women are struggling with the challenge of combining family and work. But men do not have it easy either. They are increasingly less educated than women. They are bearing the brunt of the recession. The New York Times recently reported that "a full 82 percent of the job losses have befallen men." Reuters referred to the surging male unemployment rate as a "blood bath." Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "FastStats" show that men are less likely than women to be insured—and more likely to drink, smoke, and be overweight. They also die six years earlier than women on average. Why are there no conferences, petitions, workshops, congressional hearings, or presidential councils to help men close the education gap, the health care gap, the insurance gap, the job-loss gap, and the death gap? Because, unlike women, men do not have hundreds of men's studies departments, research institutes, policy centers, and lobby groups working tirelessly to promote their challenges as political causes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/are-men-second-sex-now
By YahooNews.com 5/20/2009 ...."The Catholic religious orders that ran more than 50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late 19th century until the mid-1990s offered public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday. But when questioned, their leaders indicated they would continue to protect the identities of clergy accused of abuse — men and women who were never reported to police, and were instead permitted to change jobs and keep harming children. ...The report found that molestation and rape were "endemic" in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers order, and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless. ...." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 5/4/2009 "Equality is gaining ground at homes across the USA, but the move toward parity leaves some mothers in a quandary; they're ready to share the workload with their partners, but to do that, they'll also have to come to terms with the loss of hierarchy at home. "Women who want to create this sometimes don't appreciate the level at which they must let go," says Amy Vachon of Watertown, Mass. She and her husband, Marc, have become the standard-bearers for a philosophy called "equally shared parenting."..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm
By Martha Neil --ABA Journal 5/12/2009 "It may not be whether women lawyers have children but how much they focus on their families that accounts for a widely reported gender gap between the salaries and partnership prospects of male and female attorneys at many law firms. A study of data concerning graduates of the University of Michigan Law School showed no significant difference between men and women who had children yet didn't interrupt their careers or work part-time to take care of them. However, it revealed a significant gap between those attorneys and their colleagues—both male and female—who put their careers on pause for several years to stay home with the kids, says law professor Kenneth Dau-Schmidt of Indiana University at Bloomington. "Gender was secondary, and much less important, than whether they had interrupted their careers to do child care," he tells the ABA Journal." Read the entire article: http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/many_women_lawyers_with_kids_do_as_well_as_the_men_researcher_says
By Medical News Today 5/18/2009 "Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- whose is considered to be "near the top" of President Obama's list of potential Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice David Souter -- could face criticism over a 2001 speech in which she stated that a judge's ethnicity and gender "may and will make a difference in our judging," the New York Times reports. According to the Times, Republicans have indicated that "they intend to put the eventual nominee under a microscope," and they have expressed concern that Obama's emphasis on judicial "empathy" suggests that he is seeking a judge who will promote liberal ideology. Some conservative commentators also have branded Sotomayor a "judicial activist" because of her remarks during a 2005 panel discussion for law students, when she said that a "court of appeals is where policy is made." However, Sotomayor also said that she is "not promoting" and "not advocating" that idea. In her 2001 speech, delivered at the Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California-Berkeley, Sotomayor questioned the notion that male and female judges would reach similar conclusions when deciding cases, though she also "sounded many cautionary notes," the Times reports. Sotomayor said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Sotomayor also said that the increasing diversity in federal courts "will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging." She said that being a woman or a minority can affect a judge's perspective because of "experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences."..." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150329.php
By Ben Winslow -- Deseret News 5/13/2009 "A jury trial in Colorado for the woman declared a "person of interest" in the phone call that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch has been delayed again. During a hearing in a Colorado Springs court on Wednesday, court records show the trial for Rozita Swinton, 34, on a charge unrelated to the Texas raid was vacated and rescheduled to begin Aug. 31. Swinton is charged with a misdemeanor count of false reporting, accusing her of pretending to be a sexually abused teenage girl in Colorado Springs who was chained in a basement. Swinton is also facing a probation violation charge in the Denver suburb of Castle Rock, stemming from her conviction on a similar false reporting charge there." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705303219/Trial-delayed-for-suspected-FLDS-Sarah.html?linkTrack=rss-30
By Daily Record.com 5/11/2009 "A former student claims in a lawsuit that the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey discriminated against him for the way he described his background in classroom discussions on cultural diversity. Paulo Serodio said that in 2006, he told a professor and classmates that he was "white, African, American," which he says accurately reflects the fact that he was born in Mozambique but later became a U.S. citizen. He said some classmates and staff members at New Jersey Medical School found it offensive that a Caucasian man would call himself "African-American" and that the fallout led to harassment and eventually his suspension from the school. Serodio, who lives in Newark, said some school employees and students told him not to describe himself as "African-American." In the aftermath of his comments, Serodio said, flyers were hung around the school mocking him, he was assaulted and his car was vandalized." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090511/UPDATES01/90511011/Ex-student+says+NJ+medical+school+discriminated+ By Rob Stein and Donna St. George -- Washington Post 5/14/2009 "....The number of children being born out of wedlock has risen sharply in recent years, driven primarily by women in their 20s and 30s opting to have children without getting married. Nearly four out of every 10 births are now to unmarried women. "It's been a huge increase -- a dramatic increase," said Stephanie J. Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics, which documented the shift in detail yesterday for the first time, based on an analysis of birth certificates nationwide. "It's quite striking." Although the report did not examine the reasons for the increase, Ventura and other experts cite a confluence of factors, including a lessening of the social stigma associated with unmarried motherhood, an increase in couples delaying or forgoing marriage, and growing numbers of financially independent women and older and single women deciding to have children on their own after delaying childbearing. "I think this is the tipping point," said Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology and women's studies at Wellesley College. "This is becoming increasingly the norm. The old adage that 'first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage' just no longer holds true.".." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301628.html By Donna Willis - NBC4i.com - Ohio 5/8/2009 "A mother of two is wanted by Delaware County authorities for owing more than $50,000 in child support. According to Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost, Mary Green, 47, was indicted Friday on two county of non-support—both fifth-degree felonies. Officials said she owes $50,827.18 in child support for her son and daughter, who are both now over the age of 18. “Justice is a community effort and we need the community to help us bring this deadbeat queen to the bar of justice,“ Yost said." Read the entire article: http://www.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/prosecutor_mom_owes_50k_in_child_support/15555/ By YahooNews.com 5/11/2009 "On a spring day in 1953, two babies were born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in the Eastern Oregon town of Heppner — DeeAnn Angell of Fossil and Kay Rene Reed of Condon. The girls would grow up, get married, have kids of their own and become grandparents. Then, last summer, Kay Rene's brother, Bobby Reed, got a call from an 86-year-old woman who had known his mother and had also lived next door to the Angell family in Fossil. "She said she had something she had to get off her chest," Bobby Reed said in an interview with the East Oregonian newspaper of Pendleton, which reported the story Sunday. Bobby met the woman at the nursing home where she lives. The woman said Marjorie Angell insisted back in 1953 that she had been given the wrong baby after the nurses returned from bathing them. Her concerns, however, were brushed off. Then the old lady showed Bobby an old photo. "It looked like Kay Rene in about 7th or 8th grade," Bobby said." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_re_us/us_switched_at_birth
By YahooNews.com 5/7/2009 "A little testosterone might be good for adults, but it can cause serious harm to children, federal health officials warned Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration said adults using prescription testosterone gel must be extra careful not to get any of it on children to avoid causing serious side effects. These include enlargement of the genital organs, aggressive behavior, early aging of the bones, premature growth of pubic hair, and increased sexual drive. Boys and girls are both at risk." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_go_ot/us_med_testosterone_kids By E. Steven Berkimer and Pierce Harlan -- Opinion,The Daily Cardinal - 4/30/2009 "April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Unfortunately, much of the “awareness” raised about a crime that victimizes all too many women is unnecessarily politicized and factually incorrect. For reasons that have nothing to do with aiding rape victims and everything to do with advancing a larger political agenda, too many of the persons who dominate the public discourse about sexual assault feel it is necessary to insist that false rape claims are a myth. We write for one of the few websites in America devoted exclusively to giving voice to the persons wrongly accused of sexual assault, The False Rape Society. False rape claims are America’s taboo epidemic, and we chronicle news of false rape claims on a daily basis. We receive heart-wrenching emails, especially from mothers of young men who have been falsely accused. One young man recently told us our website stopped him from committing suicide. That is an awful burden to put on one little website, but these people have nowhere else to turn. But our efforts aren’t universally applauded, as you can imagine. Our site is often dismissed by some feminists as unnecessary, to put it charitably, because, we are told, women don’t lie about rape." Read the entire article: http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/23007 By Northwest Herald - Illinois 5/4/2009 " Texas officials believe a woman who owes more than $48,000 in child support payments may be in Algonquin. Michelle Falco owes $48,413 for the support of two children in Texas. She is on that state's list of "Top Ten Most Wanted Child Support Evaders," according to a statement from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. "Michelle Falco has turned her back on her children by refusing to pay child support," Abbott said in the statement. "Parents who ignore their responsibility to support their children must be held accountable for violating the law."..." Read the entire article: http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2009/05/04/51139446/index.xml By Paul Revoir Mail Online -- 4/30/2009 "Women have won the war for equality but it has left many of them imprisoned and exhausted, a pioneering feminist has claimed. Campaigner Erin Pizzey, who founded the world's first refuge for battered women in 1971, claims the idea of women happily combining a career and a family has proved to be a myth. The 70-year-old said women's 'freedom of choice' to have both has left them with less spare time than they had before. But she added that many now did not understand what they had lost. Speaking as part of a BBC programme about the role of women in the workplace, she said many are mothers who are having to juggle jobs at the same time. She said: 'There's been a subterranean war between men and women which has been won by women and they don't actually understand what they've lost.'...." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1175119/Women-exhausted-fight-equality-claims-feminist-icon.html
By People.com 4/27/2009 "The case of accused Craigslist Killer Philip Markoff has taken a decidedly new turn with the admission of a male Boston corporate professional who told NBC News that, based on his own experience, Markoff used Craigslist to seek out men as well as women for sexual activites. "I posted an ad on Craigslist under 'male for t,' which stands for 'males for transsexuals,' " said the man, who requested his name not be revealed, for fear of jeopardizing his job. "That's where he found me.".." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20274975,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By CNN.com 4/23/2009 "Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it). .....Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by. Although the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of married, divorced, single, and even same-sex partners living together, it doesn't look for the stories behind those numbers. But experts like Binnie Klein, a Connecticut-based psychotherapist and lecturer in Yale's department of psychiatry, agree that alternative relationships are on the rise. "It's clear that a change in sexual orientation is imaginable to more people than ever before, and there's more opportunity -- and acceptance -- to cross over the line," says Klein, noting that a half-dozen of her married female patients in the past few years have fallen in love with women. "Most are afraid that if they don't go for it, they'll end up with regrets." Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, Ph.D, a professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky and author of "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body," also agrees that in the current environment, more women may be stepping out of the conventional gender box." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/04/23/o.women.leave.menfor.women/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Donna St. George Washington Post 4/20/2009 "A new study concludes that children can become addicted to playing video games, with some skimping on homework, lying about how much they play and struggling, without success, when they try to cut back. In what is described as the first nationally epresentative study in the United States on the subject, researcher Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University found that 8.5 percent of American youths ages 8 to 18 who play video games show multiple signs of behavioral addiction. ....Four times as many boys as girls were considered "pathological gamers." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902350.html?referrer=emailarticle By ScienceDaily.com 4/2/2009 "A couple's sexual orientation determines whether or not they prefer to adopt a boy or a girl. Gay men are more likely to have a gender preference for their adopted child whereas heterosexual men are the least likely. What's more, couples in heterosexual relationships are more likely to prefer girls than people in same-gender relationships, according to Dr. Abbie Goldberg from Clark University in the US." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402092915.htm
By Nicholas Bakalar -- New York Times -- 4/20/2009 "More boys than girls are born all over the world, but a new study has found that the closer people live to the equator, the smaller the difference becomes. No one knows why. The skewed sex ratio at birth has been known for more than a hundred years, and researchers have found a large variety of social, economic and biological factors that correlate with it — war, economic stress, age, diet, selective abortion or infanticide and more. Teasing out the contribution of any single cultural or political variable has proved an almost infinitely complicated exercise." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/health/21sex.html?scp=1&sq=boys&st=cse
By Charlene Muhammad -- FinalCall.com - Illinois 4/10/2009 "A recent study indicates that of the major ethnic groups impacted by unemployment during the current U.S. recession, Black men have experienced the greatest job losses since the crisis officially began in November 2007. “What's missing from national media coverage of this recession is plainly a great deal of dishonesty about who's losing their jobs. This is overwhelmingly a blue collar, retail sales, low level recession,” said Andrew Sum, professor of economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., which published the study. “The Impacts of the 2007-2009 National Recession on Male Employment in the U.S. through January 2009; The Massive Concentration of Job Losses Among Males Especially Black Men and Blue Collar Workers” tracked employment losses in the recession across gender groups of workers overall, and in the four major ethnicities—Asian, Black, Hispanic and White." Read the entire article: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5895.shtml By ScienceDaily.com 4/1/2009 "Nurses in the maternity ward often say that a difficult labor is a sign of a baby boy. Now, researchers at Tel Aviv University claim that a new study provides scientific evidence that a male baby comes with a bigger package of associated risks than his female counterparts. In a study of 66,000 births, Prof. Marek Glezerman, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, together with Dr. Yariv Yogev and Dr. Nir Melamed, found that while girls were at a higher risk for restricted growth in utero and for breech presentation at birth, risks associated with boy fetuses were more abundant." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112729.htm
By New York Times 4/13/2009 "Should the conversations parents have with sons about sex, manners and respect be any different than the talk they have with their daughters? In today’s “18 and Under” column, pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass explores whether special lessons are needed for boys versus girls. It has never been easy for adults to deal with young teenagers honestly and sensibly on this subject, and it isn’t easy now. We live with an endless parade of hypersexualized images — and a constant soundtrack of adults lamenting children’s exposure to that endless parade. There’s increasing knowledge of dating violence, including well-publicized celebrity incidents. And there’s always a new movie to see about how adolescent boys are clueless, sex-obsessed goofballs. Stir it all together, and you may get an official worldview in which boys are viewed as potential criminals and girls as potential victims." Read the entire article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/talking-to-boys-about-sex/?scp=1&sq=boys&st=cse By Sharon LaFraniere - New York Times - 4/10/2009 "A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating “an imminent generation of excess men,” a study released Friday said. For the next 20 years, China will have increasingly more men than women of reproductive age, according to the paper, which was published online by the British Medical Journal. “Nothing can be done now to prevent this,” the researchers said. Chinese government planners have long known that the urge of couples to have sons was skewing the gender balance of the population. But the study, by two Chinese university professors and a London researcher, provides some of the first hard data on the extent of the disparity and the factors contributing to it." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/asia/11china.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=boys&st=cse
By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Editorial....Washington Post -- 4/14/2009 "What's good for women's basketball will be good for nuclear physics. To most Americans, that statement will sound odd. To President Obama, it apparently does not. In an October letter to women's advocacy groups, he declared that Title IX, the law that requires universities to give equal funding to men's and women's athletics, had made "an enormous impact on women's opportunities and participation in sports." If pursued with "necessary attention and enforcement," the same law could make "similar, striking advances" for women in science and engineering. ....Is it true that women are being excluded from academic science programs because of sexist bias? Some researchers agree that bias is to blame; others, perhaps a majority, suggest that biology and considered preference explain why men and women gravitate to different academic fields. But researchers who dispute the bias explanation played little or no role in the Title IX conferences, summits or congressional hearings. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302119.html
By National Post - Canada 4/8/2009 "Forget deadbeat dads. Deadbeat moms may be the flavour of the day in family law. An Ontario Superior Court judge has held in contempt a mother who flouted five separate access orders and ordered her to pay the father a penalty of $20,000 plus $15,000 in costs." Read the entire article: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/legalpost/archive/2009/04/08/deadbeat-mom-must-pay-35-000-to-dad.aspx By FoxNews.com 4/9/2009 "A Samoan woman who secretly gave birth on an international flight and then dumped the baby in an on-flight toilet has been convicted of child abandonment. Karolaine Maika, a 29-year-old fruit picker, had the child in the bathroom without anyone realizing. It happened on a Pacific Blue flight from her home country to New Zealand'scapital, Auckland, in March. Cleaners found the baby girl alive after the flight landed. Maika pleaded guilty to a child abandonment charge in Manukau District Court after police withdrew a charge of assaulting the baby. They said they accepted the child's injuries were caused during the birth. Judge Heather Simpson decided not to jail Maika but ordered her to be deported to Samoa. Her lawyer, Elaine Ward, said her client had not told anyone about her pregnancy because it was considered shameful in Samoansociety to be an unwed mother." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513696,00.html By Marybeth Hicks -- Washington Times -- 3/18/2009 "Last week, President Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. He did so with a speech in which he praised the perseverance and pluck of his own single mother, the grandmother who ultimately raised him, and especially his wife, whom he credited for her exceptional skill as mother to their two daughters. Under the direction of his longtime political pal Valerie Jarrett, Mr. Obama has added membership on this council to the already daunting list of tasks of every Cabinet-level appointee. He says the council's job will be to ensure that the feminist agenda saturates public policy on all levels." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/men-are-womens-issue/
By Fremont News Messenger - Ohio 3/31/2009 "Eight area men received certificates Thursday indicating their completion of the 24/7 Dad fatherhood program at WSOS Community Action Commission Inc. This was the first class of its kind. Eight area men received certificates Thursday indicating their completion of the 24/7 Dad fatherhood program at WSOS Community Action Commission Inc. This was the first class of its kind." Read the entire article: http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20090331/NEWS01/903310311 By BBC 4/2/2009 "A "Gender Neutral Language" booklet distributed to Euro MPs has irritated some of them by advising against using words like "man-made" and "manpower". Three Conservative MEPs have written to the European Parliament's Secretary General Klaus Welle, demanding that the booklet be withdrawn. "I think they should be ridiculed for wasting time on such nonsense," Tory MEP Martin Callanan told BBC News. The booklet from the parliament's secretariat came out two weeks ago. In a joint declaration, Mr Callanan and Tory MEPs Roger Helmer and Christopher Heaton-Harris said the use of Romance languages in the EU - with their masculine and feminine articles for nouns - made such gender rules "not only absurd but impossible". ... Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7979322.stm
By CNN.com Europe 4/1/2009 "A British court Wednesday told a business financier he would still have to pay a $13.6 million divorce settlement despite losing a fortune in the credit crunch. Brian Myerson had told the UK Court of Appeal that instead of receiving £14.6 million ($21 million) from a division of his assets, he would now be £½ million out of pocket, according to the UK Press Association. The court rejected his appeal, saying the "natural process of price fluctuation, however dramatic" did not justify changing the settlement, PA reported. Under the original settlement made last year, Myerson, the former CEO of Principle Capital Holdings, was ordered to pay 43% of his then total £25.8m assets to his wife. Lawyers for Myerson said because of the economic downturn, the wife's share of the total assets under the order would now be 105% and the husband's would be -5%." Read the entire article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/01/credit.crunch.divorce/index.html By Barbara Kay -- National Post -- 4/1/2009 "Last weekend, I attended the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), Canada's first international conference on a form of child abuse that can be as bad as, or even worse than, sexual and physical abuse. ...The late psychologist and researcher Richard Gardner said of PAS, the term he coined in 1985, "I have introduced this term to refer to a disturbance in which children are obsessed with deprecation and criticism of a parent --denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated." ...PAS-level alienators -- whether male or female, the pattern of behaviour is identical -- are typically so pathologically consumed with anger triggered by rejection, that they are beyond the reach of reason or moral suasion. More than just punishing, they wish literally to wipe out the target parent's existence." Read the entire article: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=49f09920-0cb6-45f4-8fe8-ef4df2e3206b&p=1 By CBCNews.ca 3/31/2009 "The council had been asked by former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant to review the conduct of Justice Paul Cosgrove after he was accused of inappropriate behaviour during a 1999 murder trial. The trial had stemmed from the 1995 killing of a man from eastern Ontario. Julia Elliott was accused of killing and dismembering Lawrence Foster and then dumping his body into the Rideau River near Kemptville, Ont. Following an investigation into the judge's conduct, it was alleged that during the trial Cosgrove had inappropriately aligned himself with defence lawyers and had allowed witnesses to be verbally abused. Cosgrove stayed the charges against Elliott, but his ruling was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2003. In a retrial, Elliott pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/03/31/ot-090331-judicialcouncil.html By Fox News 3/27/2009 "A New York woman claims her daughter was switched at birth with another baby, and as a result, her baby was breast-fed by a different woman, WABC reported. ....When the mistake was finally realized and Anaya was returned to Brown, she rejected her natural mother’s milk, and now has to be fed formula, Brown said. Lamonsoff said his client plans to sue the hospital. A representative from Brookdale was not available for comment. ..." Fox News.com "A White House spokesman tells FOXNews.com President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine. .... a long-abolished policy that would require broadcasters to provide opposing viewpoints on controversial issues." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/white-house-opposes-fairness-doctrine/ The Enterprise 2/6/9 "In a ruling state Supreme Judicial Court raised questions about whether Plymouth County prosecutors should have charged three preteen girls in a 2007 rape case, and not just a teenage boy. ...In its ruling, the court said that statutory rape laws, which once protected only girls, have been amended over the years to give the same protections to both boys and girls. The court also noted that the girls said they willingly performed sex acts on the boy. "Indeed, sexual behavior seemed to melt seamlessly into games of 'manhunt,' 'truth or dare,' and 'making out,' " Chief Justice Margaret Marshall wrote for the majority in the 3-2 ruling...." Read the entire article: http://www.enterprisenews.com/archive/x439281556/Court-questions-whether-Plymouth-County-prosecutors-should-have-charged-preteen-girls-in-rape-case By Rob Stein --Washington Post -- 3/26/2009 "When a vaccine designed to protect girls against a sexually transmitted virus arrived three years ago, the debate centered on one question: Would the shots make young girls more likely to have sex? Now the vaccine's maker is trying to get approval to sell the vaccine for boys, and the debate is focusing on something else entirely: Is it worth the money, and is it safe and effective enough?" Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032503682.html?hpid=topnews By Law.com 3/26/2009 "In one of the first civil rights suits to focus on the growing practice of "sexting," lawyers for the ACLU of Pennsylvania will be asking a federal judge Thursday to protect three teenage girls from the threat of criminal charges for using their cell phones to take and send semi-nude photographs of themselves. The suit accuses Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. of violating the three girls' First Amendment rights and seeks a court declaration that the photos "are not child pornography or any other crime." "Kids should be taught that sharing digitized images of themselves in embarrassing or compromised positions can have bad consequences, but prosecutors should not be using heavy artillery like child-pornography charges to teach them that lesson," said Witold Walczak, the legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. "These are just kids being irresponsible and careless; they are not criminals." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429399530&rss=newswire By Dan Levine, The Recorder-- Yahoo Finance 3/20/2009 "The federal government got off the sidelines Thursday to throw a few blocks for plaintiffs in a huge gender class action against Wal-Mart. The move is a reversal by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, which had previously decided to sit the case out. Instead, the EEOC now opposes Wal-Mart's bid to try punitive damages on a case-by-case basis, according to an amicus curiae brief the commission filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...The lawsuit against Wal-Mart represents years of toil for federal judges. The plaintiffs say Wal-Mart uniformly paid women less than men across the country. Then-Northern District Judge Martin Jenkins signed off on the class certification in 2004." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/EEOC-Reverses-Stance-on-law-14697628.html
By UWire -- Opinion Column--DailyIllini.com 3/17/2009 "As usual, the gender police have arrived on the scene with much aplomb but with little information. Read the entire article: http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2009/03/18/OpinionColumns/Time-To.Call.Off.The.Classroom.Gender.Police-3674786.shtml By Kate Spicer -- Daily Mail – United Kingdom 3/16/2009 "The author of a controversial new book says she was so desperate for a baby she got pregnant 'accidentally on purpose' in a one-night stand. KATE SPICER admits that - like many women - she's played the same dangerous game...Some of these women approach the task in a far more ruthless manner than Mary Pols did, purposefully going out and sleeping with men when they know they are at their most fertile. In America, they even have a name for this - they call them 'gotcha' pregnancies. Many of the women involved deliberately avoid birth control and have no intention of letting their unwitting bedfellow know this." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162248/Kate-Spicer-getting-pregnant-night-stand-happy-mistake.html By FoxNews.com 3/11/2009 "Recessions gripping economies around the world will hit men harder than women as job insecurity threatens an inherent sense of masculinity, damaging mental health, a British researchers said this month. A study by Cambridge University showed that despite more women than men losing their jobs in Britain due to the credit crunch, men who think they may be fired or made redundant are likely to become more stressed and depressed than women. As the economic slowdown wears on, the effects of job insecurity will take a greater toll on men's health than that of their female counterparts, the study found." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508635,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Emily Bazelon -- SLATE -- 3/12/2009 "If you've been laid out and laid off by the downturn and your spouse is still working, how much do you rearrange your family life? Do you assume the hit you've taken is temporary and leave all the old roles in place? Or do you concede semipermanence and take on more household duties, never mind what went before or what it all means? That's a question more couples are facing because the layoffs, so far, are largely affecting men. I put out a call a couple of weeks ago asking for their stories. I wanted to know, specifically, how couples handling a husband or wife's unemployment are also handling what's called the second shift—the work we do at either end of the day to keep our kids and our homes running. The responses suggest that, possibly, the interplay between this recession and "who does what" in the house may be more complex than past data about the behavior of unemployed men suggest." Read the entire article: http://www.slate.com/id/2213485/ By the Canadian Press -- Edmonton Sun Canada 3/16/2009 "A Toronto millionaire has been ordered to pay $31,015 in monthly support to his five-year-old daughter -- the largest temporary child support award by a Canadian court. In making the order, Judge Susan Greer noted that as the 38-year-old man's income "escalated skyward," he stubbornly condemned his former wife's attempt to secure a generous child-support payment as being "nothing more than a means of wealth transfer from him to her." Read the entire article: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/03/16/8762501-sun.html By Associated Press WATERVILLE, Maine 3/15/2009 "The state's top monitor says he has not seen a significant increase in the number of child-support cases in Maine. But Stephen Hussey, director of the division of support, enforcement and recovery within Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, says the number of child-support payments having to be taken out of unemployment checks is increasing." Read the entire article: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090315-NEWS-90315008 By Times Online Blogs – United Kingdom 3/11/2009 "Do "female fathers" mean the end of the road for dads? ....Does the rise of the "female father" mean the beginning of the end for Dads as we know them? One new book that addresses this question is Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study, by two law professors, Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon (Hart Publishing, 2008)." Read the entire article: http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2009/03/do-female-fathe.html By Jeremy Adam Smith Guardian.co.uk -- 3/2/2009 "Nick Clegg triggered plenty of criticism when he suggested that men who lose their jobs should "reinvent" themselves as stay-at-home dads. "'A new flexibility in which men and women are supported in reinventing themselves will be vital in helping many thousands of families through this recession," he wrote. For these words, Clegg has been accused of emasculating British industrial workers. Perhaps the Lib Dem leader has a political tin ear, but he's absolutely correct: economic downturns can open up new possibilities for men, and this recession is likely to have a huge impact on gender relations." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/27/family-nickclegg
By Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY 3/4/2009 "All season, American Idol's judges have raved about the strength of this year's crop of male contestants. Turns out the viewers agree. ...Idol's producers have said that the top 12 won't necessarily be split evenly between men and women. Still, with just three women — Alexis Grace, Allison Iraheta and Lil Rounds — in the picture so far, the judges could use tonight's one-hour wild-card round (Fox, 8 ET) to bring a little gender equity to the lineup." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-03-04-idol-wednesday_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times staff reporter 2/25/2009 "A University of Washington study has found disparities in race and gender in the penalties doled out by the state's criminal courts. ...The report indicates: Men are given higher court fees and fines than women. ...Beckett believes the study, which also includes interviews with defense attorneys, county clerk staff and convicted criminals, may finally show state and local officials the evidence they need to support a systematic overhaul." Read the entire article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008782782_courtstudy25m.html?syndication=rss
By Associated Press Writer Lorinda Toledo – 2/26/2009 "A jury awarded nearly $7 million to a 56-year-old woman who said she was unknowingly infected with herpes by the 77-year-old founder of a hair-care company. The lawsuit alleged that Thomas Redmond knew he had genital herpes for more than 25 years but did not disclose it before his sexual relationship began with Patricia Behr, and did not use a condom. ....Frisbee said Behr failed to prove it was Redmond who infected her with herpes, and that she had sex with him knowing that he had the incurable sexually transmitted disease." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_re_us/herpes_lawsuit;_ylt=Alb7OKAqH9mk6v9Ax1wOK8tvzwcF ByCox News Service 2/26/2009 "In sex education classes, 94 percent of Texas school districts teach that abstaining from sex is the only healthy option for unmarried couples, and, in many cases, students are given misleading and inaccurate information about the risks associated with sex, according to a new 72-page report. Two percent of districts — in a state that has the third highest teen birth rate in the nation — ignore the subject completely, according to the study." Read the entire article: http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/02/26/sex_ed.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=9 By Valerie Schremp Hahn -- Pantagraph.com 2/25/2009 "An experiment in single-sex classrooms that started two years ago at Carman Trails school in the Parkway School District in the St. Louis area is winning over parents, students and teachers. And even though the school doesn’t have test data to prove its success, the program is growing. Last year, the school limited the same-sex classrooms to first grade. This year, it started them in second grade. And just last week, after meeting with enthusiastic parents, the teachers and principal Chris Raeker decided to offer the option in third grade." Read the entire article: http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/02/25/news/doc49a5881e845e7776308237.txt By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer 2/25/2009 "The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the use of a federal law barring people convicted of domestic violence crimes from owning guns, the first firearms case at the high court since last year’s decision in support of gun rights. The court, in a 7-2 decision, said state laws against battery need not specifically mention domestic violence to fall under the domestic violence gun ban that was enacted in 1996. It is enough, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her majority opinion, that the victim of such a crime be involved in a domestic relationship with the attacker." Read the entire article: http://www.timesleader.com/news/Court_affirms_gun_law_in_domestic_violence_cases_02-25-2009.html
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer 2/13/09 "Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns out, unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes and encourage bonding in men, though not so much in women." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_us/sci_romance_unraveled Robert Boyer / Times-News North Carolina 2/14/9 "The program will eventually offer parents jobs ranging from landscaping and general labor to painting and cattle ranching. ...."We're going to start slowly and get people in the habit of paying their child support, and in the habit of going to work, and in the habit of keeping a job," he said. "That takes the pressure off the taxpayers, who no longer have to support this person. ...Local judges "who are anxious to see something happen" are also supportive, he said. "It's better for everyone to have that man out there working. At the end of the day, he leaves with some dignity and self-respect that he didn't have before." Read the entire article: http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/program_22601___article.html/alamance_support.html By Yellowbrix.com "(UPI) - Parents in a Wisconsin school district have been urged to check their children's cell phones after a nude snapshot of a girl was found on hundreds of phones. Waukesha Police Capt. Mark Stigler said that the girl, 14, a student at Waukesha West Central High School, sent the picture to her boyfriend, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. After the relationship ended, he started forwarding it, a practice nicknamed "sexting." Read the entire article: http://www.102theriver.com/cc-common/news/sections/lifestylearticle.html?feed=104774&article=5033135 By SARAH LEMAGIE, Star Tribune "Rahn Elementary School Principal Doug Steele, who allegedly made a kindergartner clear out a school toilet bowl bare-handed, will be fired if the district's school board has its way, his attorney said. ...The boy told them that the trouble started when he used a single-occupancy bathroom in his classroom and wiped himself with paper towels, accidentally causing the toilet to clog, his parents said. When the boy's teacher found out, she called the principal..." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/local/south/39694102.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr BY DAN POPKEY -- IdahoStatesman.com - Idaho "The Idaho Women's Commission has been targeted for elimination several times since its creation in 1965, but the recession is giving new punch to efforts to kill it." Read the entire article: http://www.idahostatesman.com/1306/story/655142.html AFP - CANADA "OTTAWA (AFP) — A Quebec billionaire's messy break-up with a young Brazilian woman he refused to marry could cost him a small fortune in alimony, and jolt the Canadian province's marriage law, media said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hscx4ZQB9RoQinMtr9XbPZOxQ43Q By Eric Litke -- Sheboygan Press staff "A 17-year-old Sheboygan girl was charged Thursday with misdemeanor sexual assault for allegedly having sex with her 14-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090109/SHE0101/901090467/1973/SHE0201 USA TODAY "WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-01-19-obesity-gender_N.htm?csp=34 By Rob Rogers, Marin Independent Journal "As a girl, author Peg Tyre didn't like recess. But as a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for Newsweek and CNN, Tyre noticed a trend: As schools across the country cut recess, music and other subjects not required by state tests, the number of students taking medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder went up." Read the entire article: http://www.marinij.com/ci_10787120 By ANNIE PLESHETTE-MURPHY "Parent Bias, Fear of Abuse Allegations and Low Pay Are Cited as Reasons for So Few Male Teachers."
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By Robin Givhan - Washington Post Staff Writer "From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepped onto the national stage as the Republican vice presidential nominee, she has been rhetorically body-slamming her Democratic opponents."
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